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。

下面是一个使用新文件系统库的版本，它具有相当健壮的错误检查功能:

#include <cstdint>
#include <exception>
#include <filesystem>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>

namespace fs = std::filesystem;

std::string loadFile(const char *const name);
std::string loadFile(const std::string &name);

std::string loadFile(const char *const name) {
  fs::path filepath(fs::absolute(fs::path(name)));

  std::uintmax_t fsize;

  if (fs::exists(filepath)) {
    fsize = fs::file_size(filepath);
  } else {
    throw(std::invalid_argument("File not found: " + filepath.string()));
  }

  std::ifstream infile;
  infile.exceptions(std::ifstream::failbit | std::ifstream::badbit);
  try {
    infile.open(filepath.c_str(), std::ios::in | std::ifstream::binary);
  } catch (...) {
    std::throw_with_nested(std::runtime_error("Can't open input file " + filepath.string()));
  }

  std::string fileStr;

  try {
    fileStr.resize(fsize);
  } catch (...) {
    std::stringstream err;
    err << "Can't resize to " << fsize << " bytes";
    std::throw_with_nested(std::runtime_error(err.str()));
  }

  infile.read(fileStr.data(), fsize);
  infile.close();

  return fileStr;
}

std::string loadFile(const std::string &name) { return loadFile(name.c_str()); };

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。

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;
}

#include <string>
#include <fstream>

int main()
{
    std::string fileLocation = "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\file.txt";
    std::ifstream file(fileLocation, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);

    std::string data;

    if(file.is_open())
    {
        std::getline(file, data, '\0');

        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();
}