string numbers;
string fileName = "text.txt";


ifstream inputFile;
inputFile.open(fileName.c_str(),ios_base::in);
inputFile >> numbers;
inputFile.close();
cout << numbers;

And my text.txt file is:

1    2    3    4    5

basically a set of integers separated by tabs.

The problem is the program only reads the first integer in the text.txt file and ignores the rest for some reason. If I remove the tabs between the integers it works fine, but with tabs between them, it won't work. What causes this? As far as I know it should ignore any white space characters or am I mistaken? If so is there a better way to get each of these numbers from the text file?