What is the most elegant way to read a text file with c++?

Question

I\'d like to read whole content of a text file to a std::string object with c++.

With Python, I can write:

text = open(\"text.txt\", \"         


        

Answer 1

There's another thread on this subject.

My solutions from this thread (both one-liners):

The nice (see Milan's second solution):

string str((istreambuf_iterator(ifs)), istreambuf_iterator());

and the fast:

string str(static_cast(stringstream() << ifs.rdbuf()).str());