[crammer008]

Dear all,

How to read the whole TXT file into one string?

The TXT file is a multi-line file and its size is not known.

Looking forward to your guidance!
Thanks a lot

Crammer008

[Amadeus]

How can the size not be known? Is it an open text file that is being written to while it is being read from. Here is a link to some common filke i/o manipulation:
http://www.cplusplus...rial/files.html
As discussed on that page, you can obtain the file size like so:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  long begin,end;
  ifstream myfile ("example.txt");
  begin = myfile.tellg();
  myfile.seekg (0, ios::end);
  end = myfile.tellg();
  myfile.close();
  cout << "size is: " << (end-begin) << " bytes.\n";
  return 0;
}

That determined size can then be used to read the file to a single string object.

[crammer008]

Thank you very much!

You code helps to get the size of the file:)

My question is how to read the whole file into a string.
Every time, the file will be produced with different size. This is the reason I said the size is unknown.

Thank you:)
Crammer008

[Amadeus]

You would check the file size everytime you need to read it. As for reading it to the string, you can do it several ways:

string str,strTotal;
ifstream in;
in.open("myfile.txt");
getline(in,str);
while ( in ) {
   strTotal += str;
   getline(in,str);
}

This will read the file line by line and append it to a string...keep in mind this method will take out the newlines, so if you want them, you'll have to put them in yourself...

There are other methods as well.