you should anyway use ifstream instead of fstream for reading...

Omitting all errorchecking, the following will read and echo lines from a textfile:

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#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

int main()
{
  ifstream fs;
  fs.open("test.txt");
  string s;
  while (fs >> s)  cout << s << endl;
  fs.close();
}

#include <fstream> #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> int main() { ifstream fs; fs.open("test.txt"); string s; while (fs >> s) cout << s << endl; fs.close(); }