I would prefer ifstream because it is a bit more modular than fopen. Suppose you want the code that reads from the stream to also read from a string stream, or from any other istream. You could write it like this.
Since this is tagged as C++, I will say ifstream. If it was tagged as C, i'd go with fopen :P.
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