Casting doesnt work ... [SOLVED]

Question

Hi there ...

why isnt that code printing any numbers ...?
The array holds the right numeric values - but they wont appear on stdout
:(

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main ()
{

char array[7] = {'*','*','*','*','*','*','*'};
int i,j;

for(i= 0; i < 7; i++)
{
array[i] = static_cast<char>(i +1);
for(j = 0; j < 7 ;j++)
{
cout << array[j];
}
cout << endl;
}
return 0;

}

Answer 1

And what about doing the casting in a seperate line?
like:

char temp;
temp = (char)(i+1);
cout << temp;

?

If i debug the code, i can see that the array holds '1','2', ... ?!