I am currently reading a text file that has newlines occupying 2 bytes, since it writes newline as CRLF instead of only LF.

```
std::fstream fileReader = std::fstream(_filename, std::ios::in);

// READ THE SIZE OF THE FILE:
fileReader.seekg(0, fileReader.end); // set reader position to the end
std::streamsize fileSize = fileReader.tellg(); // get reader position
fileReader.seekg(0, fileReader.beg); // set reader position to the start

// SET UP THE BUFFER:
std::vector<char> buffer; buffer.resize(fileSize, '\0');
buffer.back() = '\0';

// READ:
fileReader.read(buffer.data(), fileSize);

```

The problem is that, "fileSize" IS actually the size of the file, not the amount of characters-that-are-not-CF in the file -which is what it's expecting.

**Is there a way to get that number automatically?**

Otherwise, I suppose binary mode is the only option left -though it would be pretty disappointing, as I was expecting proper automatic formatting when not using binary mode.
Also, the .read function fails (fileReader's failbit is true)