基于CTT解决方案的更新函数:

#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <limits>
#include <string_view>
std::string readfile(const std::string_view path, bool binaryMode = true)
{
    std::ios::openmode openmode = std::ios::in;
    if(binaryMode)
    {
        openmode |= std::ios::binary;
    }
    std::ifstream ifs(path.data(), openmode);
    ifs.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max());
    std::string data(ifs.gcount(), 0);
    ifs.seekg(0);
    ifs.read(data.data(), data.size());
    return data;
}

有两个重要的区别:

Tellg()不保证返回自文件开始以来的字节偏移量。相反，正如Puzomor Croatia所指出的，它更像是一个可以在fstream调用中使用的令牌。但是Gcount()会返回上次提取的未格式化字节数。因此，我们打开文件，使用ignore()提取并丢弃其所有内容，以获得文件的大小，并基于此构造输出字符串。

其次，我们通过直接写入字符串来避免必须将文件的数据从std::vector<char>复制到std::string。

就性能而言，这应该是绝对最快的，提前分配适当大小的字符串并调用read()一次。有趣的是，在gcc上使用ignore()和countg()而不是ate和tellg()会一点一点地编译成几乎相同的东西。

从几个地方提取信息…这应该是最快最好的方法:

#include <filesystem>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

//Returns true if successful.
bool readInFile(std::string pathString)
{
  //Make sure the file exists and is an actual file.
  if (!std::filesystem::is_regular_file(pathString))
  {
    return false;
  }
  //Convert relative path to absolute path.
  pathString = std::filesystem::weakly_canonical(pathString);
  //Open the file for reading (binary is fastest).
  std::wifstream in(pathString, std::ios::binary);
  //Make sure the file opened.
  if (!in)
  {
    return false;
  }
  //Wide string to store the file's contents.
  std::wstring fileContents;
  //Jump to the end of the file to determine the file size.
  in.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
  //Resize the wide string to be able to fit the entire file (Note: Do not use reserve()!).
  fileContents.resize(in.tellg());
  //Go back to the beginning of the file to start reading.
  in.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);
  //Read the entire file's contents into the wide string.
  in.read(fileContents.data(), fileContents.size());
  //Close the file.
  in.close();
  //Do whatever you want with the file contents.
  std::wcout << fileContents << L" " << fileContents.size();
  return true;
}

这将宽字符读入std::wstring，但如果您只想要常规字符和std::string，则可以很容易地进行调整。

我知道我迟到了，但现在(2021年)在我的机器上，这是我测试过的最快的实现:

#include <fstream>
#include <string>

bool fileRead( std::string &contents, const std::string &path ) {
    contents.clear();
    if( path.empty()) {
        return false;
    }
    std::ifstream stream( path );
    if( !stream ) {
        return false;
    }
    stream >> contents;
    return true;
}

请看类似问题的答案。

为了方便大家，我转发了CTT的解决方案:

string readFile2(const string &fileName)
{
    ifstream ifs(fileName.c_str(), ios::in | ios::binary | ios::ate);

    ifstream::pos_type fileSize = ifs.tellg();
    ifs.seekg(0, ios::beg);

    vector<char> bytes(fileSize);
    ifs.read(bytes.data(), fileSize);

    return string(bytes.data(), fileSize);
}

当对《白鲸记》(Moby Dick, 1.3M)的文本进行平均100次运行时，该解决方案比本文给出的其他答案的执行时间快了约20%。对于一个可移植的c++解决方案来说还不错，我想看看mmap'ing文件的结果;)

该解决方案将错误检查添加到基于rdbuf()的方法中。

std::string file_to_string(const std::string& file_name)
{
    std::ifstream file_stream{file_name};

    if (file_stream.fail())
    {
        // Error opening file.
    }

    std::ostringstream str_stream{};
    file_stream >> str_stream.rdbuf();  // NOT str_stream << file_stream.rdbuf()

    if (file_stream.fail() && !file_stream.eof())
    {
        // Error reading file.
    }

    return str_stream.str();
}

I'm adding this answer because adding error-checking to the original method is not as trivial as you'd expect. The original method uses stringstream's insertion operator (str_stream << file_stream.rdbuf()). The problem is that this sets the stringstream's failbit when no characters are inserted. That can be due to an error or it can be due to the file being empty. If you check for failures by inspecting the failbit, you'll encounter a false positive when you read an empty file. How do you disambiguate legitimate failure to insert any characters and "failure" to insert any characters because the file is empty?

您可能会认为显式地检查空文件，但这是更多的代码和相关的错误检查。

检查失败条件str_stream.fail() && !str_stream.eof()不工作，因为插入操作没有设置eofbit(在ostringstream或ifstream上)。

所以，解决办法就是改变操作。不要使用ostringstream的插入操作符(<<)，而是使用ifstream的提取操作符(>>)，它确实设置了eofbit。然后检查失败条件file_stream.fail() && !file_stream.eof()。

重要的是，当file_stream >> str_stream.rdbuf()遇到合法的失败时，它不应该设置eofbit(根据我对规范的理解)。这意味着上述检查足以检测出合法的故障。

#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();
}