Reading a Binary file and outputing Ascii characters

[JanaB]

I am writing a code that needs to read in a binary file. At the moment I don't have to do anything with the data, I just need to view the contents to compare its structure with another binary file. Right now all I'm getting in my output is a series of numbers such as:
2-4-73015010000000245-36-12800115011500-1280-1280-12
I adapted my script from a post I saw earlier today from member UnknownBlue who was trying to do a similar thing, but outputting his code as hex. Can anyone help? Thanks!

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
 
char memblock;  
ifstream::pos_type size;
ifstream file;
 
int main()
 
{
  ofstream out("Out.txt", ios::out);    //The imput file is very large so I'm writing the output to a file.
  ofstream outChar("OutChar.txt", ios::out);    
 
int size, i;
char n;
char *chr;
 
file.open (mybinaryfile.uf, ios::in|ios::binary|ios::ate);
 
if (file.is_open())
{
 
size = (int) file.tellg();
 
 
file.seekg (0, ios::beg);
 
for (i=0; i<size; i++)
{
file.seekg (0, ios::cur);
file.read (&memblock, 1);  
out << (int) memblock;
//here's where I need help.  How do I output to OutChar.txt so that the binary numbers 
//are readable as ascii characters?
 
}
 
file.close();
}
else cout << "Unable to open file";
return 0;
}
 

[horace1]

try replacing

out <<  (int) memblock;
 

which casts the char to an int and prints it to

out <<   memblock;
 

which prints the character