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I know that I shouldn't use namespace std (using namespace std) as global in this scope, but for this example, I will.

What I ideally want, is to save text to a .txt file and retrieve it. I know that the best option would be fstream and so I decided to use it.

The below code prints out "This". Why does it print out "This" and not the full text?

Here is the code:

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

using namespace std;

int main() {
    ifstream fin;
    ofstream fout;
    string text;

    fout.open("C++_text_file_test.txt");
    fout << "This is basic text";
    fout.close();

    fin.open("C++_text_file_test.txt");
    fin >> text;
    fin.close();

    cout << text << endl;
    cin.get(); // waits for user to press enter 

    return 0;
}

I tried researching but didn't quite understand the process of using a loop. Is there an easier way or can someone please explain it?

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The >> operator, when used to extract a string, only grabs the characters up to the first white space character. Try using getline to get the whole line.

Coda17
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