The following code example is taken from the book
The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd Edition
by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Addison Wesley Longman, 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. and Nicolai M. Josuttis
// header files for file I/O
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
// for all filenames passed as command-line arguments
// - open, print contents, and close file
int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
ifstream file;
// for all command-line arguments
for (int i=1; i<argc; ++i) {
// open file
file.open(argv[i]);
// write file contents to cout
char c;
while (file.get(c)) {
cout.put(c);
}
// close file
file.close();
}
}