From 593e762e90daebeb51efad9be268e941c73bf2a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin <martin@urbackup.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 02:42:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] New function to read files whose size is not known beforehand

(cherry picked from commit 4a9ef9cb8ddcbe075a90000c411db131ad39033b)
---
 stringtools.cpp | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 stringtools.h   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stringtools.cpp b/stringtools.cpp
index 0d01dcc8..d1393831 100644
--- a/stringtools.cpp
+++ b/stringtools.cpp
@@ -218,6 +218,22 @@ std::string getFile(std::string filename)
         return ret;
 }
 
+std::string getStreamFile(const std::string& fn)
+{
+	std::fstream fin(fn.c_str(), std::ios::binary | std::ios::in);
+	if (!fin.is_open())
+		return std::string();
+
+	std::string ret;
+	while (!fin.eof())
+	{
+		char buf[512];
+		fin.read(buf, sizeof(buf));
+		ret.insert(ret.end(), buf, buf + fin.gcount());
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
 void strupper_utf8(std::string *pStr)
 {
 	std::wstring tmp;
diff --git a/stringtools.h b/stringtools.h
index 93d1b364..739db082 100644
--- a/stringtools.h
+++ b/stringtools.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ std::string getuntilinc(std::string str,std::string data);
 std::string getline(int line,const std::string &str);
 int linecount(const std::string &str);
 std::string getFile(std::string filename);
-std::string getFileUTF8(std::string filename);
+std::string getStreamFile(const std::string& fn);
 std::string ExtractFileName(std::string fulln, std::string separators="/\\");
 std::string ExtractFilePath(std::string fulln, std::string separators="/\\");
 std::string convert(bool pBool);