使用.getline和字符串代替char

Question

So I have some code here that reads from a text document and stores it into char bunz . I know this sounds like a stupid question but I'd rather use string instead of char. Will .getline accept a string if it is used with ifstream ? Or will I be forced to convert the char to a string afterwords?

Thanks.

ifstream filler("C:\\bunz.txt");

char bunz[30+1];
filler.getline(bunz, 40);
cout<<bunz;
filler.close();

Answer 1

Notorious for posting answers as comments, chris is spot on . Once you use std::getline() , you'll never go back:

ifstream filler("C:\\bunz.txt");
string bunz;
getline(filler, bunz);
cout<<bunz;
filler.close();