Thread: How do you stor the contents of a textfile in a string?

Here is what i came up with:

Code:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  string str;
  ifstream a_file( "C:\test.txt" );
  a_file>>str;
  cout<<str;
  cin.get();
}

it doesnt display anything. I have double and triple checked the test.txt and it does contain text. Could someone please help.