No Match for fstream::write().

No Match for fstream::write().
I am using Mingw gcc compiler and when I compiled this code I got an error:

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mand.cpp:38: no matching function for call to `std::basic_fstream<char,
  std::char_traits<char> >::write(unsigned char[100], const int&)'
E:/MinGW/include/c++/3.2.3/bits/ostream.tcc:387: candidates are:
  std::basic_ostream<_CharT, _Traits>& std::basic_ostream<_CharT,
  _Traits>::write(const _CharT*, int) [with _CharT = char, _Traits =
  std::char_traits<char>] <near match>

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The line was :

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fstream file("IMAGE.RAW", ios::out|ios::binary);
if(!file){
    cout<<"\nError Opening file...\n\n";
    return 1;
}
for(int i=0; i<SIZE; ++i)
    file.write(Canvas[ i], SIZE); //this line
file.close();
cout<<"\nFILE WRITTEN\n";
return 0;
}
/*
where
unsigned char Canvas[SIZE][SIZE]={'\0'};
const int SIZE = 100; //global;
*/

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I am not sure about the cause of the error;
This function worked in my prestandard compiler in some other program.
So what function should I use to achieve a similar purpose?
And what's with all the'<>' symbols in the error report? I did'nt know that fstream was 'templated'

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file.write(reinterpret_cast<char*>(Canvas[i]), 100);

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Thak you. It works.
Can you tell me why there was no match even though the variable was unsigned char?
Conversion from unsigned char to char is quite harmless and why did'nt the compiler implicitly do it? And why doesn't the static_cast work?

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invalid static_cast from type `unsigned char[100]' to type `char*'

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I got this error. It is stupid because I want the compiler to implicitly convert 'unsigned char*[100]' and not 'unsigned char[100]'.

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Originally Posted by arjunajay

Thak you. It works.
Can you tell me why there was no match even though the variable was unsigned char?
Conversion from unsigned char to char is quite harmless and why did'nt the compiler implicitly do it? And why doesn't the static_cast work?

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invalid static_cast from type `unsigned char[100]' to type `char*'

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I got this error. It is stupid because I want the compiler to implicitly convert 'unsigned char*[100]' and not 'unsigned char[100]'.

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Actually unsigned characters and signed characters have a big difference. Most modern compilers (VC++ for example) have the /j option set in the compiler, which forces all chars to be set to unsigned. However a signed character can only go from values -128 to 128, and unsigned is 0 to 255. So it isn't as harmless as you might think.

Secondly, fwrite accepts a char* not an unsigned char* or an unsigned char, and it will not do the conversion for you without telling it to, i didn't realize static_cast wouldn't work, but static_cast in general is unsafe unless you are 99% sure that you won't run into a logic error.

As for the error you recieved, unsigned char[100] isn't a proper data type, its just an array of unsigned chars. You would need to do a cast from an unsigned char* to a char*.

I am not quite clear on what your trying to do in your last statement there. You want to convert an array of 100 unsigned char* to char*?

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I am not quite clear on what your trying to do in your last statement there. You want to convert an array of 100 unsigned char* to char*?

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No,
The variable is unsigned char canvas[100][100];
so canvas [100] or canvas [ i] means an array of unsigned char, but my compiler is reporting it as char[100] and not char*[100]. that is what puzzles me...

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invalid static_cast from type `unsigned char[100]' to type `char*'

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this was the error when I used static cast
shouldn't it be

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invalid static_cast from type `unsigned char*[100]' to type `char*'

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P.S. Kindly ignore this post if it does'nt make sense.