easy Q -> read a whole line from file

i've done a bit of searching ubt havnt found anything
its quite simple..
i want to read a line from a file.
since the default
ifstream blah("blah.txt");
blah >> word;
gets a word at a time

how would i read in a whole line from a file stopping at a \n

Have you heard of the almighty getline?
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostrea...m/getline.html

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but following your example( paperbox005 ) I believe it would be:

Code:

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ifstream blah("blah.txt");
 getline( blah, word );

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Only if 'word' is a std::string, which hopefully it is since they're so much nicer than C-style strings.

**EDIT**
Alternately, if word is a char[50] or something:
blah.getline(word, 50);