The following code example is taken from the book
Object-Oriented Programming in C++
by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Wiley, 2002
© Copyright Nicolai M. Josuttis 2002
// header files
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
/* for all passed filenames in the command line
* - open file, output content and close file
*/
int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
// create file stream for reading (without opening a file)
std::ifstream file;
// for all arguments from the command line
for (int i=1; i<argc; ++i) {
// open file
file.open(argv[i]);
// output content of file
char c;
while (file.get(c)) {
std::cout.put(c);
}
// clear eofbit and failbit (were set because of EOF)
file.clear();
// close file
file.close();
}
}