help me I/O

Code:

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ifstream a_file( "Data.1" );
a_file>> x;
cout<< x <<"\n";

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this only shows one string of the file, what should i do to show the entire text ont the file?

use getline()

Code:

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std::string line;
getline(a_file,line);
cout << line << endl;

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