template<class Container>
Container readcompressfile(string ifileloc) {
    ifstream ifile(ifileloc);

    if (!ifile) {
        throw runtime_error("Could not open " + ifileloc + " for reading");
    }

    noskipws(ifile);

    return Container(istream_iterator<uint8_t>(ifile), istream_iterator<uint8_t>());
}

void decompressfile(string loc) {
        vector<uint8_t> vecbytes(readcompressfile<vector<uint8_t>>(ifilelocation)); // Here is where I'm using the above function

        vector<uint8_t>::iterator iter = vecbytes.begin();

        uint8_t ctr = 0xFF;
        bitset<8> b2 = 0;
        string code = "";

        for (; iter != vecbytes.end(); ++iter) {
            b2 = ctr & *iter;

            for (int i = 7; i >= 0; i--) {
                code += to_string(b2[i]);
            }
        }

        decodetext(code, loc);
    }

    //Reads bits and outputs string
    void decodetext(string codetext, string ofileloc) {
        string code = "";
        string text = "";
        char lett;

        for each (char ct in codetext) {
            code += ct;
            lett = returncharmap(code);
            if (lett != NULL) {
                text += lett;
                code = "";
            }
        }

        ofstream ofile(ofileloc);
        ofile << text;
        ofile.close();
    }