save all text from file as string

[GUIPenguin]

This is what I was using to display the first word in a file 'test.txt'

char str[10];
ifstream file ( "C:\\test.txt" );
file >> str;
cout << str;

My question is: Is it possible and how to save all the content as a string or to display all of the content and not just one word.

Thanks.

[Perspective]

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostream/istream/read.html

there is sample code there too.

[GUIPenguin]

Thanks alot

[hk_mp5kpdw]

Or, instead of dealing with dynamic memory allocation and needing to seek back and forth in a file just to find its size you can simply do...

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    ostringstream osstr;
    ifstream input("file.txt");

    osstr << input.rdbuf();   // Save entire contents of file into stringstream object

    string str(osstr.str());  // Convert stringstream object into string

    cout << str << endl;      // Display/use/do something with the string...

    return 0;
}