std::string get(std::string_view const& fn)
{
  struct filebuf: std::filebuf
  {
    using std::filebuf::egptr;
    using std::filebuf::gptr;

    using std::filebuf::gbump;
    using std::filebuf::underflow;
  };

  std::string r;

  if (filebuf fb; fb.open(fn.data(), std::ios::binary | std::ios::in))
  {
    r.reserve(fb.pubseekoff({}, std::ios::end));
    fb.pubseekpos({});

    while (filebuf::traits_type::eof() != fb.underflow())
    {
      auto const gptr(fb.gptr());
      auto const sz(fb.egptr() - gptr);

      fb.gbump(sz);
      r.append(gptr, sz);
    }
  }

  return r;
}

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。

最短的变体:Live On Coliru

std::string str(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>{ifs}, {});

它需要头文件<iterator>。

有一些报告说，这种方法比预先分配字符串和使用std::istream::read要慢。然而，在现代的编译器上，这种情况似乎不再存在，尽管各种方法的相对性能似乎高度依赖于编译器。

#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();
}

就性能而言，我还没有找到比下面的代码更快的代码。

std::string readAllText(std::string const &path)
{
    assert(path.c_str() != NULL);
    FILE *stream = fopen(path.c_str(), "r");
    assert(stream != NULL);
    fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_END);
    long stream_size = ftell(stream);
    fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_SET);
    void *buffer = malloc(stream_size);
    fread(buffer, stream_size, 1, stream);
    assert(ferror(stream) == 0);
    fclose(stream);
    std::string text((const char *)buffer, stream_size);
    assert(buffer != NULL);
    free((void *)buffer);
    return text;
}

如果你有c++ 17 (std::filesystem)，也有这种方法(通过std::filesystem::file_size而不是seekg和tellg来获取文件大小):

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

namespace fs = std::filesystem;

std::string readFile(fs::path path)
{
    // Open the stream to 'lock' the file.
    std::ifstream f(path, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);

    // Obtain the size of the file.
    const auto sz = fs::file_size(path);

    // Create a buffer.
    std::string result(sz, '\0');

    // Read the whole file into the buffer.
    f.read(result.data(), sz);

    return result;
}

注意:如果你的标准库还不完全支持c++ 17，你可能需要使用<experimental/filesystem>和std::experimental::filesystem。你可能还需要用&result[0]替换result.data()，如果它不支持非const std::basic_string数据。