Inputting Strings from a file

This is my program:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>

int main ()
{
ifstream fin ("whatever.txt");
char x[6];
fin >> x;
cout << x;
return 0;
}

All that this does is get one character from the file, but I want to read in an entire string, of length 1 to 6. How?

Thanks for any help

use a loop.

My problem is that there are two different strings of variable length. Is there an end of line function?

carriage return acts as an end of line