Read text file into string. C++ ifstream [duplicate]

Answer 1

It looks like you are trying to parse each line. You've been shown by another answer how to use getline in a loop to seperate each line. The other tool you are going to want is istringstream, to seperate each token.

std::string line;
while(std::getline(file, line))
{
    std::istringstream iss(line);
    std::string token;
    while (iss >> token)
    {
        // do something with token
    }
}

Answer 2

getline(fin, buffer, '\n')
where fin is opened file(ifstream object) and buffer is of string/char type where you want to copy line.

Answer 3

To read a whole line from a file into a string, use std::getline like so:

 std::ifstream file("my_file");
 std::string temp;
 std::getline(file, temp);

You can do this in a loop to until the end of the file like so:

 std::ifstream file("my_file");
 std::string temp;
 while(std::getline(file, temp)) {
      //Do with temp
 }

References

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/getline

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string