Writing byte characters to a binary ofstream

[blooglet]

I'm trying to write binary data to a file. I want to create a file that contains the following data (hexadecimal notation):

80

So I tried this:

    ofstream outFile("file.txt", ios::binary);
    uint32_t character = 0x80;
    outFile << character;

    outFile.close();

Instead, I got...

3132 380a

What am I doing wrong?

[weaknessforcats]

YOu need to use outfile.write rather than operator<< for binary. The << writes only text.