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

The function fread will read from the stream and not terminate on end-of-line characters.

From the man page, you have:

size_t fread(void *restrict ptr, size_t size, size_t nitems, FILE *restrict stream);

which reads in nitems of size size.