using fstream to read every character including spaces and newline

Question

I wanted to use fstream to read a txt file.

I am using inFile >> characterToConvert, but the problem is that this omits any spaces an

Answer 1

For encryption, you're better off opening your file in binary mode. Use something like this to put the bytes of a file into a vector:

std::ifstream ifs("foobar.txt", std::ios::binary);

ifs.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
std::ifstream::pos_type filesize = ifs.tellg();
ifs.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);

std::vector bytes(filesize);

ifs.read(&bytes[0], filesize);

Edit: fixed a subtle bug as per the comments.