How cast char to int in C++? (File Handling)

Question

Lets say I have a txt file list.txt

The txt file has list of integers ,

Now I am able to open the file and display the contents in it but not able to store it in an integer array.

int main()
{
     ifstream fin;
     fin.open("list.txt");
     char ch;
     int a[4],i=0;
     while((!fin.eof())&&(i<4))
     {
          fin.get(ch);
          a[i]=(int)ch;
          cout<<a[i]<<"\n";
          i++;
     }
     fin.close();
     return 0;
}

Please help!!

[Why looping on eof() is bad](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5605125/why-is-iostreameof-inside-a-loop-condition-considered-wrong) — Galik, Oct 25 '14 at 12:15
possible duplicate of [Convert char to int in C and C++](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5029840/convert-char-to-int-in-c-and-c) — Philipp Meissner, Oct 25 '14 at 12:22

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '14 at 12:16

You can use >> to read text-formatted values:

fin >> a[i]

You should check for the end of the file after trying to read, since that flag isn't set until a read fails. For example:

while (i < 4 && fin >> a[i]) {
    ++i;
}

Note that the bound needs to be the size of the array; yours is one larger, so you might overrun the array if there are too many values in the file.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '14 at 12:18

Try the following

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main()
{
     const size_t N = 4;
     int a[N];

     std::ifstream fin( "list.txt" );

     size_t i = 0;

     while ( i < N && fin >> a[i] ) i++;

     while ( i != 0 ) std::cout << a[--i] << std::endl;

     return 0;
}

How cast char to int in C++? (File Handling)

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