Conversion of char to a string

[maabar]

Hi, I need to know how could I use the class ifstream if I want to pass a string to its constructor?

For example, if I have the following codes:

string name = "file.txt";

ifstream f(name);

the compiler says that ifstream doesn't take string as an argument, so what do I need to do to use the above codes? I don't want to use ifstream f("file.txt") ;

Thanks

[rgb]

have you tried:

char* name;
name = "file.txt";
ifstream f(name);

[Banfa]

or

char name[] = "file.txt";
ifstream f(name);

saving the whole size of a pointer in program data.

[MrJay]

You can still try out this,

string line = "first.txt";
istringstream is(line);

istringstream is defined in <sstream> header file