A more efficient way for file I/O in C++?

[davidthefat]

I think fstream and ofstream and ifsteam is decent but what if you have to load more that a dozen line of text like a journal or something. for example, a file with data of the weights i used. what im asking is that can the functions be used with multidimensional arrays?

[Falco Girgis]

Yeah, of course ifstream can read into multidimensional arrays:

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ifstream file(filename);
file >> variable[x][y];

[MarauderIIC]

You can even be like awesome and

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vector <int> nums;
int num;
file >> num;
while (file) {
    nums.push_back(num);
    file >> num;
}

or

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int array[20zillion];
for (int i = 0; file && i != 20zillion; ++i) { //lolololol
    file >> array[i];
}

[avansc]

people dont rely on plain text, make binary files and just read entire stuctures/classes at a time, alot faster than processing each line or what not.
i think C++ is making developers lazy and ultimatly stupid. (no offence to anyone.)