Loading Shaders from File

[Qoheleth]

This is more of a basic C/C++ question. I'm using ifstream to read from a text file the shader program. glShaderSource needs that shader code in the form of GLchar **. Is there anyway to get a const char * array that is just large enough to hold all the lines in the code? Or is there some other way I'm not seeing?

fstream shaderFile( filePath, ios::in );

if ( shaderFile.is_open() )
{
std::stringstream buffer;
buffer << shaderFile.rdbuf();
shader = buffer.str();
}

That's basically what I'm doing and I'm passing shader.c_str(). However, the shader is failing to compile. One thing I don't understand though, if my shaders are failing to link and compile (and they obviously are since my triangles are not being colored blue), but I'm still getting two white triangles. I thought shaders were needed to do everything in the core profile?

// load and compile vertex shader
string shaderProgramText;
const char* text = getShaderProgram( shaderInfo.vShaderFile, shaderProgramText );
GLint length = shaderProgramText.size();
glShaderSource( GL_VERTEX_SHADER, 1, (const GLchar**)&text, (GLint*)&length );
glCompileShader( shaderObject );

I've also checked my c_str, and it has all the shader code with newlines. Should I be inserting '\0' and setting the last parameter of glShaderSource to NULL instead?
EDIT:

I used glGetShaderiv and got:

Shader compilation failed...
(0) : error C0000: syntax error, unexpected $end at token "<EOF>"

What does this mean?

[Qoheleth]

omg...I'm so stupid. Passed in GL_VERTEX_SHADER to glShaderSource instead of my actual shader object. SOLVED.