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Language: C++
Expertise: Intermediate

Oct 31, 2000

<fstream> classes overload the operators >> for reading from a file and << for writing to it. There are several overloaded versions for each operator, one for each built-in type. In addition, these operators support several user-defined types, including std::string. You can use these operators for reading and writing data to a file. The following function reads all the words in a text file into a string using << and stores each retrieved string in a vector:

 
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
 ifstream ftext;
 string word;
 vector <string> vs;
 ftext.open("data.txt");
 if (!ftext) 
  exit (-1);
 while (ftext>>word) // as long as sizeof hasn't been reached
 {
  vs.push_back(word); //copy word to vector
 }
}