Corrupt data being stored in variable upon reading file via fstream…why?

Read() does not add a terminator to the end if the string. However, when casting a char* to a string it requires a nul terminator. When your buffer was short you got lucky and there was a zero at the end, when it was longer there was non-zero data.

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