Re: [Boost-users] boost::iostreams de/compress data from memory question.

CPPer wrote:

int main() { using namespace std;

ifstream file("hello.gz", ios_base::in | ios_base::binary); io::filtering_istream in; in.push(io::gzip_decompressor()); in.push(file);

std::string stir;

in >> stir;

The >> operators work on a character basis... they dont work well on binary data. Try initializing your string differently and see if you have better luck (similarly later on in your example).