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

Another better way is to use istreambuf_iterator, and the sample code is as below:

ifstream inputFile("test.data");

string fileData(istreambuf_iterator(inputFile), istreambuf_iterator());