please help me in understanding the output of the file read

[syedshan]

Hi all,

first of all please check the program, then I will share the output and confusion

using namespace std;

int main() {

 short int *num_ptr;

 ifstream myReadFile;
 myReadFile.open("filea.txt");
 
 if (myReadFile.is_open()) {
 while (!myReadFile.eof()) {
	 cout << myReadFile <<endl;
 }
 
}
 
 myReadFile.close();
return 0;
}

Now the file veeeery simple(for testing only, actual file has actual data).

But the output is as below image. Note that it runs continously, even though I have the eof function there and I have to stop it by pressing ctrl+c
The file is attached, (It has only 00's in itView attachment filea.txt
What I


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Oh by the way,

the quesiotion is why such output, what I actually want to do is to read the whole file at once, then break it into the integer-16 bit and then send it to my FPGA, device, the actual file has 16-bit integer values( here represented as 000s only)