peek() Multiple Places Ahead?

Lets say I have an outer while loop to read each character and output it to console. I also want to flag a word if it is found and by using the peek method I can find the first instance of a word. Is there a way to peek multiple places ahead. For example, if I looking for the word "payday" . I know I can input this into a string and search a string, but I want to read files in binary mode and I don't want to take away any values from the outer loop. If I have an inner loop with a read method, those values are not then displayed via the outer loop.

Thanks

int main()

ifstream strm;
char *chr = new char;

strm.open("mytext.txt",ios::out | ios::binary);

while (strm.read(chr,1)
{
    if (strm.peek() == 'p';
  {
    cout << "found a word beginning with 'p'" << endl;
  //what if I want to read multiple characters ahead.  Peek will read only one.
  }

}