Read the entire contents of a file to c char *, including new lines

Question

I\'m looking for a cross platform (Windows + Linux) solution to reading the contents of an entire file into a char *.

This is what I\'ve got now:

Answer 1

Something like this, may be?

FILE *stream;
char *contents;
fileSize = 0;

//Open the stream. Note "b" to avoid DOS/UNIX new line conversion.
stream = fopen(argv[1], "rb");

//Seek to the end of the file to determine the file size
fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_END);
fileSize = ftell(stream);
fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET);

//Allocate enough memory (add 1 for the \0, since fread won't add it)
contents = malloc(fileSize+1);

//Read the file 
size_t size=fread(contents,1,fileSize,stream);
contents[size]=0; // Add terminating zero.

//Print it again for debugging
printf("Read %s\n", contents);

//Close the file
fclose(stream);
free(contents);