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

std::ifstream ifs( "filename.txt" );

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