Reading strings from file

[john]

I am having problems reading my chararaters from file into variables, how
do i go about it.

[jonnin]

"john" <jn096@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I am having problems reading my chararaters from file into variables, how
>do i go about it.

char x[line size];

ifstream inf;
inf.open("file);

inf.read(x, line size);

this reads everything, even whitespace.

or use
inf >> x; to get one string, seperated by whitespace.