Writing a member variable to a text file

Hi,

I have an EnemySprite object that has an int member variable called Chromosome. The value of it is "1".

I'm trying to write that value to a text file, but instead of getting "1" I am getting "1244044", which I presume is the RAM address of the variable.

I can't figure out why can't I get to the value of the variable.

Here is a little code example:

Code:

void GA::StoreDeadEnemyInfo(Sprite* pEnemySprite) {

ofstream f("Dead_Enemies.txt", ios::app);
   f << pEnemySprite->GetChromosome();
   f << "_";
   f << fitness;
   f << "\n";

}

Any advice on this is really appreciated. Thanks.

let's see prototype for GetChromosome()

Code:

class EnemySprite : public Sprite                                           
{
  protected:
    int           m_iChromosome;                                
    int           m_iFitness;
  public:                                                                      
    ..........ETC................
    int GetChromosome() {
      return m_iChromosome;                                            
    };

There's the key bits from the EnemySprite file.

Well, I don't see anything wrong with it, perhaps it's not really storing a 1 as you think