C++ precision of numbers and truncation with fstream

Question

I have a file.txt with hundreds of numbers. They have many digits (max 20) after the point and I need to get them all without truncation, otherwise they introduce errors in the following computations. I made these numbers with matlab so it has a monstrous precision but now I must replicate this behaviour in my program.

I've done this way:

 fstream in;
 in.open(file.txt, ios::in);
 long double number;
 in>>number;

I also tried this

 in.precision(20);
 in>>number;

before each ">>" operation but it is vain

Answer 1

The following works fine on my system (Win7, VS2012):

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

int main (void)
{
    std::ifstream file ("test.txt") ;

    long double d = 0 ;
    file >> d ;

    std::cout.precision (20) ;
    std::cout << d << "\n" ;


    return 0 ;
}

The text file:

2.7239385667867091

The output:

2.7239385667867091

If this doesn't work on your system, then you need to use a third-party number library.