Converting QString to char* [duplicate]
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QString to char conversion
I have a function (fopen in STL) that gives a char* argument as a path in my computer, but I must use QString in that place so it doesn't work.
How can I convert QString to char* to solve this problem?
See here at How can I convert a QString to char* and vice versa?
In order to convert a QString to a char*, then you first need to get a latin1 representation of the string by calling toLatin1() on it which will return a QByteArray. Then call data() on the QByteArray to get a pointer to the data stored in the byte array. See the documentation:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html#toLatin1 https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qbytearray.html#data
See the following example for a demonstration:
int main(int argc, char **argv) { QApplication app(argc, argv); QString str1 = "Test"; QByteArray ba = str1.toLatin1(); const char *c_str2 = ba.data(); printf("str2: %s", c_str2); return app.exec(); }
Note that it is necessary to store the bytearray before you call data() on it, a call like the following
const char *c_str2 = str2.toLatin1().data();
will make the application crash as the QByteArray has not been stored and hence no longer exists
To convert a char* to a QString you can use the QString constructor that takes a QLatin1String, e.g:
QString string = QString(QLatin1String(c_str2)) ;
See the documentation:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlatin1string.html
Of course, I discovered there is another way from this previous SO answer:
QString qs;
// Either this if you use UTF-8 anywhere
std::string utf8_text = qs.toUtf8().constData();
// or this if you on Windows :-)
std::string current_locale_text = qs.toLocal8Bit().constData();
You could use QFile rather than std::fstream.
QFile file(qString);
Alternatively convert the QString into a char* as follows:
std::ifstream file(qString.toLatin1().data());
The QString is in UTF-16 so it is converted toLatin1() here but QString has a couple of different conversions including toUtf8() (check your file-system it may use UTF-8).
As noted by @0A0D above: don't store the char* in a variable without also getting a local copy of the QByteArray.
char const* fileName = qString.toLatin1().data();
std::ifstream file(fileName); // fileName not valid here.
This is because toLatin1() returns an object of QByteArray. As it is not actually bound to a variable it is a temporary that is destroyed at the end of the expression. Thus the call to data() here returns a pointer to an internal structure that no longer exists after the ';'.
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