#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
main(){
    fstream file;
    //Open a file
    file.open("test.txt");
    string copy,temp;
    //While loop to store whole document in copy string
    //Temp reads a complete line
    //Loop stops until temp reads the last line of document
    while(getline(file,temp)){
        //add new line text in copy
        copy+=temp;
        //adds a new line
        copy+="\n";
    }
    //Display whole document
    cout<<copy;
    //close the document
    file.close();
}

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
main(){
    fstream file;
    //Open a file
    file.open("test.txt");
    string copy,temp;
    //While loop to store whole document in copy string
    //Temp reads a complete line
    //Loop stops until temp reads the last line of document
    while(getline(file,temp)){
        //add new line text in copy
        copy+=temp;
        //adds a new line
        copy+="\n";
    }
    //Display whole document
    cout<<copy;
    //close the document
    file.close();
}

#include <string>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

string GetStreamAsString(const istream& in)
{
    stringstream out;
    out << in.rdbuf();
    return out.str();
}

string GetFileAsString(static string& filePath)
{
    ifstream stream;
    try
    {
        // Set to throw on failure
        stream.exceptions(fstream::failbit | fstream::badbit);
        stream.open(filePath);
    }
    catch (system_error& error)
    {
        cerr << "Failed to open '" << filePath << "'\n" << error.code().message() << endl;
        return "Open fail";
    }

    return GetStreamAsString(stream);
}

用法:

const string logAsString = GetFileAsString(logFilePath);

这是我使用的函数，当处理大文件(1GB+)时，由于某种原因std::ifstream::read()比std::ifstream::rdbuf()快得多，当你知道文件大小时，所以整个“先检查文件大小”的事情实际上是一个速度优化

#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
std::string file_get_contents(const std::string &$filename)
{
    std::ifstream file($filename, std::ifstream::binary);
    file.exceptions(std::ifstream::failbit | std::ifstream::badbit);
    file.seekg(0, std::istream::end);
    const std::streampos ssize = file.tellg();
    if (ssize < 0)
    {
        // can't get size for some reason, fallback to slower "just read everything"
        // because i dont trust that we could seek back/fourth in the original stream,
        // im creating a new stream.
        std::ifstream file($filename, std::ifstream::binary);
        file.exceptions(std::ifstream::failbit | std::ifstream::badbit);
        std::ostringstream ss;
        ss << file.rdbuf();
        return ss.str();
    }
    file.seekg(0, std::istream::beg);
    std::string result(size_t(ssize), 0);
    file.read(&result[0], std::streamsize(ssize));
    return result;
}

这样的事情应该不会太糟糕:

void slurp(std::string& data, const std::string& filename, bool is_binary)
{
    std::ios_base::openmode openmode = ios::ate | ios::in;
    if (is_binary)
        openmode |= ios::binary;
    ifstream file(filename.c_str(), openmode);
    data.clear();
    data.reserve(file.tellg());
    file.seekg(0, ios::beg);
    data.append(istreambuf_iterator<char>(file.rdbuf()), 
                istreambuf_iterator<char>());
}

这样做的好处是，我们先做了预留，这样我们就不必在读入时增加字符串。缺点是我们一个字符一个字符地做。更聪明的版本可以抓取整个read buf，然后调用下流。

永远不要写入std::string的const char *缓冲区。从来没有!这样做是一个巨大的错误。

在std::string中为整个字符串保留()空间，将合理大小的文件中的块读入缓冲区，然后追加()它。数据块的大小取决于输入文件的大小。我非常确定所有其他可移植的和与stl兼容的机制都会做同样的事情(但可能看起来更漂亮)。