Reading in characters and creating array c++

Question

How would one go about reading in a line of characters from a file. First the program reads in an integer from the file. That number indicates how many characters to read in in

Answer 1

#include <fstream.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() 


    {
        ifstream f("file.txt",ios::in);
        int n;
        f >> n;
        char string[n];
        f.getline(string,n);
       cout<<string;

    }

This gives output off the following string in file.txt.

Answer 2

To answer your question:

#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    ifstream f("file.txt");
    int n;
    f >> n;
    char chs = new char[n];
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) f >> chs[i];

    // do something about chs

    delete [] chs;
}

But, I would go with (if your Michael appears on its own line):

#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    ifstream f("file.txt");
    int n;
    f >> n;
    string str;
    getline(f, str);
}