C/C++ :: Assigning Symbols To Numbers In 2D Array?

I'm working on a program in C++ that is supposed to read in a file, store the content of the file into a 2D array, assign characters to each of the numbers in the array and store in a char array, and print both of these arrays. It's then supposed to go through the initial array and make sure that each number doesn't differ in value from it's neighboring numbers by more than 1, correct these errors by replacing these numbers with the value of the average of their neighbors, assign characters to this corrected array as it did before, and print both arrays.

The character assignments go as follows:

0=blank
1=.
2=,
3=_
4=!
5=+
6=*
7=#
8=$
9=&

I have the code written that opens the file and loads the array, but where to go from there. To me the obvious, although probably not best, way to do the assignments is to go through the array with a for loop and use a series of if statements to check for the value of the number at each index and assign the appropriate symbol.

Here is the code I have so far:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int size = 100, i, j;
prog >> size;
int **numArray = new int* [size];

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