Relating Strings & FileStream in C++

[manwanirg]

can the file contents be directly read into a C++ string object pointer instead of character pointer?

[horace1]

can the file contents be directly read into a C++ string object pointer instead of character pointer?

you can use the >> operator (read up to next whitespace) or getline() function see
http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce/courseinfo/stl/string.htm