Converting String to Binary

[beau]

I'm attempting to read in a file and convert it into its binary representation. The program returns the correct representation for all of the characters that have been sent to it, but unfortunately I get the same 9 character junk after each output. Here's the code that I'm working with, if anyone can see what my issue is please let me know. Thank you in advance.

// decompress.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

void charToBinary(const char* ch) 
{
	int ascii;
	int length = strlen(ch);

	cout << " ";
	
	for(int i = 0; i < length; i++){
		ascii = ch[i];
		cout << "Ascii for " << ch[i] << " " << ascii << "   ";
		char* binary_reverse = new char [9];
		char* binary = new char [9];
		
		int j = 0;
		
		while(ascii != 1){
			if(ascii % 2 == 0){
				binary_reverse[j] = '0';
			}
			else if(ascii % 2 == 1){
				binary_reverse[j] = '1';
			}
			ascii /= 2;
			j++;
		}
		
		if(ascii == 1){
			binary_reverse[j] = '1';
			j++;
		}
		
		if(j < 8){
			for(; j < 8; j++){
				binary_reverse[j] = '0';
			}
		}
	
		for(int z = 0; z < 8; z++){
			binary[z] = binary_reverse[7 - z];
		}
		
		cout << "Binary for " << ch[i] << " " << binary << endl;   
		
		delete [] binary_reverse; 
		delete [] binary;
	}
	
	cout << endl;
}
int readem(string path){
	ifstream infile(path);
	string line;
	const char* ch;
	if(infile.is_open())
	{
		cout<<"file "<<path<<" is open."<<endl;
		while(infile.good())
		{
			getline(infile, line);
			ch = line.c_str();
			charToBinary(ch);
		}
		return 0;
	}
	else
		return -1;
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	readem(argv[1]);
	return 0;
}

[zwA4jE8b]

to be honest I didn't read all of your code but the following function will convert a char to binary

void converttobinary(char c)
{
	int bits[8], i;
	

	for(i = 0; i < 8; i++)
		bits[i] = ((1<<i) & c) != 0 ? 1:0;

	for(i = 7; i >= 0; i--)
		std::cout << bits[i];
	std::cin.get();
	return 0;
}

I imagine if you just went through your file reading in char by char and just converting one char at a time the problem could be eliminated.