fstream.get() - Problem

Hi! I'm trying to read a text file one character at time, but the fstream get() function read some crap after the character. Here is my code:

for (int i = 0; i < MAP_SIZE; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < MAP_SIZE; j++)
{
file.get(a); // reads a char

char* b = const_cast<char*>(&a); // convert to no-const
textout_ex(screen, font, b, x, y, makecol(0, 0, 0), makecol(255, 255, 255)); // print it
x += 20;
}
x = 250;
y += 20;
}

The text file is just chars, like this:

01111100000000
00000111111110
00110000000010
01100000000011
01000000000001
01100000000001
00100000000001

The code seems to work fine, but for somereason i get this:

0^1^1^1^1^1^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0 D
^^0^0^0^0^0^1^1^1^1^1^1^1^1^0 D
0^ ^^0^1^1^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^0^1^0 D
... and continues.


Please! What i'm doing wrong?
I'm just wanna read a text file one char at time.
Thanks!

Sorry...

Code:

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for (int i = 0; i < MAP_SIZE; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < MAP_SIZE; j++)
    {
        file.get(a); // reads a char
        char* b = const_cast<char*>(&a); // convert to no-const
        textout_ex(screen, font, b, x, y, makecol(0, 0, 0), makecol(255, 255, 255)); // print it
        x += 20;
    }
    x = 250;
    y += 20;
}

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1) I assume that "a" is a char

2) I assume that textout_ex takes a char* variable that is NULL terminated.

Simply casting a char to a char * will not NULL terminate the string.

The simplest solution is probably:

Code:

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char b[2] = { 0 , 0 };
file.get( &b[0] );
text_out( .... );

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