Do I need to manually close an ifstream?
Do I need to manually call close() when I use a std::ifstream? For example, in the code: std::string readContentsOfFile(std::string fileName) { std::ifstream file(fileName.c_str()); if (file.good()) { std::stringstream buffer; buffer << file.rdbuf(); file.close(); return buffer.str(); } throw std::runtime_exception(“file not found”); } Do I need to call file.close() manually? Shouldn’t ifstream make use of RAII for closing … Read more
