Developer (#164)

- State before merging the new cluster vector API

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Co-authored-by: Patrick <patrick.sieberer@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: JulianHeymes <julian.heymes@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: Dhanya Thattil <dhanya.thattil@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: Xiangyu Xie <45243914+xiangyuxie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: xiangyu.xie <xiangyu.xie@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: siebsi <sieb.patr@gmail.com>

src/utils/ifstream_helpers.cpp

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+#include "aare/utils/ifstream_helpers.hpp"
+
+namespace aare {
+
+std::string ifstream_error_msg(std::ifstream &ifs) {
+    std::ios_base::iostate state = ifs.rdstate();
+    if (state & std::ios_base::eofbit) {
+        return " End of file reached";
+    } else if (state & std::ios_base::badbit) {
+        return " Bad file stream";
+    } else if (state & std::ios_base::failbit) {
+        return " File read failed";
+    }else{
+        return " Unknown/no error";
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace aare