stream types

[paoloricardo]

Say I have an int and I want to write it to a text file:

theFile.open("numstrng.txt", ios::out);

int i = 23;
theFile << i << endl;

Is i automatically converted to char i[3] (C) or is it stored as a binary number? In other words, do I have to convert int to char (using C types)?

[kbw]

It's converted to characters on the stream.

[paoloricardo]

kbw: thanks.