text file ASCII converting

[platapus1331]

hello all,
i am new and in need of assistance. i am trying to convert the contents of a .txt to ASCII values and save it as a separate .txt file. im not sure how to do this. can anyone help me?

[yulingo]

So are you saying that the encoding of your input is not ASCII, or that you want to convert each character to a number and save it?

[platapus1331]

yes, i want to convert each character.

[LB]

You're misunderstanding several concepts here. Forget about ASCII completely, just erase it from your mind.

Files are made up of bytes. You can interpret a file however you want - be it as text, or as a bunch of numbers, but the content is the same either way.

[platapus1331]

ok so then i want to change the bytes?

[LB]

No, you want to interpret the bytes as numbers, and convert those numbers to strings with spaces between each one. You won't be 'changing' anything.

[platapus1331]

ok, i think i understand that now. how would i tell the program to read it differently?

[yulingo]

All you have to do is tell your program to write it differently. Read your file into a buffer, then extract from the buffer one character at a time.

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq/print-char-or-ptr-as-number.html

[platapus1331]

Thats helpful, thanks. Now how do i get it to read from an external file?

[yulingo]

the fstream class. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/fstream/ There are also a pile of examples you can look up easily enough.

[Chervil]

Also there is a tutorial on file input and output:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/

I'd suggest you may find the get() function useful for reading one character at a time from the input file. Then you simply need to output that char as an int, and repeat.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/istream/istream/get/