I am new to OpenCV and have tried to copy the contents of a cv::imread object to an array. When I print the contents, however, I get a bunch of characters like this
^N
^X
^Y
^Q
^[
^U
How am I to interpret this as RGB values? I was expecting values in the range of 0 to 255 and I don't understand what these characters mean. I would like to put the values into an array of pixels but, with no numbers, that's impossible.