Why does this fail, it's supposed to be simple and work ?

fisier.seekg(0, ios::end);
long lungime = fisier.tellg();

This returns a larger value than that of the file resulting in a wrong

char *continut = new char[lungime];

Any idea what the problem could be ?

I also tried counting to the end of the file one char at a time, that rendered the same result, a higher number than expected. But upon using getline() to read one line at a time, it works, there are no extra spaces...

Thank you