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Aug 19th, 2008

Re: Need to write an integer to a binary file

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>>Error E2034 binaryfilewriting.cpp 64: Cannot convert 'int *' to 'const char *' i

>> out.write(&counter, sizeof(int));
That should have been typecast, like this:
out.write((char*)&counter, sizeof(int));

This is writing some unwanted character to the binary file. I have opened the file in Edit Plus.

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Re: Need to write an integer to a binary file

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This is writing some unwanted character to the binary file. I have opened the file in Edit Plus.

Of course it does -- afterall that's what a binary file looks like. google for definition of binary file See post #5 above.

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