QString Class

One way to initialize a QString is simply to pass a const char * to its constructor. For example, the following code creates a QString of size 5 containing the data "Hello":

QString str = "Hello";

QString converts the const char * data into Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

In all of the QString functions that take const char * parameters, the const char * is interpreted as a classic C-style '\0'-terminated string encoded in UTF-8. It is legal for the const char * parameter to be nullptr.

You can also provide string data as an array of QChars:

static const QChar data[4] = { 0x0055, 0x006e, 0x10e3, 0x03a3 };
QString str(data, 4);

QString makes a deep copy of the QChar data, so you can modify it later without experiencing side effects. (If for performance reasons you don't want to take a deep copy of the character data, use QString::fromRawData() instead.)

Another approach is to set the size of the string using resize() and to initialize the data character per character. QString uses 0-based indexes, just like C++ arrays. To access the character at a particular index position, you can use operator[](). On non-const strings, operator[]() returns a reference to a character that can be used on the left side of an assignment. For example:

QString str;
str.resize(4);

str[0] = QChar('U');
str[1] = QChar('n');
str[2] = QChar(0x10e3);
str[3] = QChar(0x03a3);

For read-only access, an alternative syntax is to use the at() function:

QString str;

for (qsizetype i = 0; i < str.size(); ++i) {
    if (str.at(i) >= QChar('a') && str.at(i) <= QChar('f'))
        qDebug() << "Found character in range [a-f]";
}

The at() function can be faster than operator[](), because it never causes a deep copy to occur. Alternatively, use the first(), last(), or sliced() functions to extract several characters at a time.

A QString can embed '\0' characters (QChar::Null). The size() function always returns the size of the whole string, including embedded '\0' characters.

After a call to the resize() function, newly allocated characters have undefined values. To set all the characters in the string to a particular value, use the fill() function.

QString provides dozens of overloads designed to simplify string usage. For example, if you want to compare a QString with a string literal, you can write code like this and it will work as expected:

QString str;

if (str == "auto" || str == "extern"
        || str == "static" || str == "register") {
    // ...
}

You can also pass string literals to functions that take QStrings as arguments, invoking the QString(const char *) constructor. Similarly, you can pass a QString to a function that takes a const char * argument using the qPrintable() macro which returns the given QString as a const char *. This is equivalent to calling <QString>.toLocal8Bit().constData().

QString provides the following basic functions for modifying the character data: append(), prepend(), insert(), replace(), and remove(). For example:

QString str = "and";
str.prepend("rock ");     // str == "rock and"
str.append(" roll");        // str == "rock and roll"
str.replace(5, 3, "&");   // str == "rock & roll"

In the above example the replace() function's first two arguments are the position from which to start replacing and the number of characters that should be replaced.

When data-modifying functions increase the size of the string, they may lead to reallocation of memory for the QString object. When this happens, QString expands by more than it immediately needs so as to have space for further expansion without reallocation until the size of the string has greatly increased.

The insert(), remove() and, when replacing a sub-string with one of different size, replace() functions can be slow (linear time) for large strings, because they require moving many characters in the string by at least one position in memory.

If you are building a QString gradually and know in advance approximately how many characters the QString will contain, you can call reserve(), asking QString to preallocate a certain amount of memory. You can also call capacity() to find out how much memory the QString actually has allocated.

QString provides STL-style iterators (QString::const_iterator and QString::iterator). In practice, iterators are handy when working with generic algorithms provided by the C++ standard library.

A frequent requirement is to remove whitespace characters from a string ('\n', '\t', ' ', etc.). If you want to remove whitespace from both ends of a QString, use the trimmed() function. If you want to remove whitespace from both ends and replace multiple consecutive whitespaces with a single space character within the string, use simplified().

If you want to find all occurrences of a particular character or substring in a QString, use the indexOf() or lastIndexOf() functions. The former searches forward starting from a given index position, the latter searches backward. Both return the index position of the character or substring if they find it; otherwise, they return -1. For example, here is a typical loop that finds all occurrences of a particular substring:

QString str = "We must be <b>bold</b>, very <b>bold</b>";
qsizetype j = 0;

while ((j = str.indexOf("<b>", j)) != -1) {
    qDebug() << "Found <b> tag at index position" << j;
    ++j;
}

QString provides many functions for converting numbers into strings and strings into numbers. See the arg() functions, the setNum() functions, the number() static functions, and the toInt(), toDouble(), and similar functions.

To get an upper- or lowercase version of a string use toUpper() or toLower().

Lists of strings are handled by the QStringList class. You can split a string into a list of strings using the split() function, and join a list of strings into a single string with an optional separator using QStringList::join(). You can obtain a list of strings from a string list that contain a particular substring or that match a particular QRegularExpression using the QStringList::filter() function.

If you want to see if a QString starts or ends with a particular substring use startsWith() or endsWith(). If you simply want to check whether a QString contains a particular character or substring, use the contains() function. If you want to find out how many times a particular character or substring occurs in the string, use count().

To obtain a pointer to the actual character data, call data() or constData(). These functions return a pointer to the beginning of the QChar data. The pointer is guaranteed to remain valid until a non-const function is called on the QString.

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QString provides the following three functions that return a const char * version of the string as QByteArray: toUtf8(), toLatin1(), and toLocal8Bit().

• toLatin1() returns a Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) encoded 8-bit string.

• toUtf8() returns a UTF-8 encoded 8-bit string. UTF-8 is a superset of US-ASCII (ANSI X3.4-1986) that supports the entire Unicode character set through multibyte sequences.

• toLocal8Bit() returns an 8-bit string using the system's local encoding. This is the same as toUtf8() on Unix systems.

To convert from one of these encodings, QString provides fromLatin1(), fromUtf8(), and fromLocal8Bit(). Other encodings are supported through the QStringEncoder and QStringDecoder classes.

As mentioned above, QString provides a lot of functions and operators that make it easy to interoperate with const char * strings. But this functionality is a double-edged sword: It makes QString more convenient to use if all strings are US-ASCII or Latin-1, but there is always the risk that an implicit conversion from or to const char * is done using the wrong 8-bit encoding. To minimize these risks, you can turn off these implicit conversions by defining some of the following preprocessor symbols:

• QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII disables automatic conversions from C string literals and pointers to Unicode.

• QT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII allows automatic conversions from C characters and character arrays, but disables automatic conversions from character pointers to Unicode.

• QT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII disables automatic conversion from QString to C strings.

You then need to explicitly call fromUtf8(), fromLatin1(), or fromLocal8Bit() to construct a QString from an 8-bit string, or use the lightweight QLatin1StringView class, for example:

QString url = "https://www.unicode.org/"_L1;

Similarly, you must call toLatin1(), toUtf8(), or toLocal8Bit() explicitly to convert the QString to an 8-bit string.

QString Widget::boolToString(bool b)
{
    QString result;
    if (b)
        result = "True";
    else
        result = "False";
    return result;
}

For historical reasons, QString distinguishes between a null string and an empty string. A null string is a string that is initialized using QString's default constructor or by passing (const char *)0 to the constructor. An empty string is any string with size 0. A null string is always empty, but an empty string isn't necessarily null:

QString().isNull();               // returns true
QString().isEmpty();              // returns true

QString("").isNull();             // returns false
QString("").isEmpty();            // returns true

QString("abc").isNull();          // returns false
QString("abc").isEmpty();         // returns false

All functions except isNull() treat null strings the same as empty strings. For example, toUtf8().constData() returns a valid pointer (not nullptr) to a '\0' character for a null string. We recommend that you always use the isEmpty() function and avoid isNull().

When a QString::arg() '%' format specifier includes the 'L' locale qualifier, and the base is ten (its default), the default locale is used. This can be set using QLocale::setDefault(). For more refined control of localized string representations of numbers, see QLocale::toString(). All other number formatting done by QString follows the C locale's representation of numbers.

When QString::arg() applies left-padding to numbers, the fill character '0' is treated specially. If the number is negative, its minus sign will appear before the zero-padding. If the field is localized, the locale-appropriate zero character is used in place of '0'. For floating-point numbers, this special treatment only applies if the number is finite.

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Many strings are known at compile time. But the trivial constructor QString("Hello"), will copy the contents of the string, treating the contents as Latin-1. To avoid this one can use the QStringLiteral macro to directly create the required data at compile time. Constructing a QString out of the literal does then not cause any overhead at runtime.

A slightly less efficient way is to use QLatin1StringView. This class wraps a C string literal, precalculates it length at compile time and can then be used for faster comparison with QStrings and conversion to QStrings than a regular C string literal.

Using the QString '+' operator, it is easy to construct a complex string from multiple substrings. You will often write code like this:

    QString foo;
    QString type = "long";

    foo = "vector<"_L1 + type + ">::iterator"_L1;

    if (foo.startsWith("(" + type + ") 0x"))
        ...

There is nothing wrong with either of these string constructions, but there are a few hidden inefficiencies. Beginning with Qt 4.6, you can eliminate them.

First, multiple uses of the '+' operator usually means multiple memory allocations. When concatenating n substrings, where n > 2, there can be as many as n - 1 calls to the memory allocator.

In 4.6, an internal template class QStringBuilder has been added along with a few helper functions. This class is marked internal and does not appear in the documentation, because you aren't meant to instantiate it in your code. Its use will be automatic, as described below. The class is found in src/corelib/tools/qstringbuilder.cpp if you want to have a look at it.

QStringBuilder uses expression templates and reimplements the '%' operator so that when you use '%' for string concatenation instead of '+', multiple substring concatenations will be postponed until the final result is about to be assigned to a QString. At this point, the amount of memory required for the final result is known. The memory allocator is then called once to get the required space, and the substrings are copied into it one by one.

Additional efficiency is gained by inlining and reduced reference counting (the QString created from a QStringBuilder typically has a ref count of 1, whereas QString::append() needs an extra test).

There are two ways you can access this improved method of string construction. The straightforward way is to include QStringBuilder wherever you want to use it, and use the '%' operator instead of '+' when concatenating strings:

    #include <QStringBuilder>

    QString hello("hello");
    QStringView el = QStringView{ hello }.mid(2, 3);
    QLatin1StringView world("world");
    QString message =  hello % el % world % QChar('!');

A more global approach which is the most convenient but not entirely source compatible, is to this define in your .pro file:

    DEFINES *= QT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER

and the '+' will automatically be performed as the QStringBuilder '%' everywhere.

The maximum size of QString depends on the architecture. Most 64-bit systems can allocate more than 2 GB of memory, with a typical limit of 2^63 bytes. The actual value also depends on the overhead required for managing the data block. As a result, you can expect the maximum size of 2 GB minus overhead on 32-bit platforms, and 2^63 bytes minus overhead on 64-bit platforms. The number of elements that can be stored in a QString is this maximum size divided by the size of QChar.

When memory allocation fails, QString throws a std::bad_alloc exception if the application was compiled with exception support. Out of memory conditions in Qt containers are the only case where Qt will throw exceptions. If exceptions are disabled, then running out of memory is undefined behavior.

Note that the operating system may impose further limits on applications holding a lot of allocated memory, especially large, contiguous blocks. Such considerations, the configuration of such behavior or any mitigation are outside the scope of the Qt API.

See also fromRawData(), QChar, QStringView, QLatin1StringView, QByteArray

Qt-style synonym for QString::const_iterator.

Qt-style synonym for QString::iterator.

This enum describes the various normalized forms of Unicode text.

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flags QString::SectionFlags

This enum specifies flags that can be used to affect various aspects of the section() function's behavior with respect to separators and empty fields.

The SectionFlags type is a typedef for QFlags<SectionFlag>. It stores an OR combination of SectionFlag values.

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The QString::const_pointer typedef provides an STL-style const pointer to a QString element (QChar).

This typedef was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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The QString::pointer typedef provides an STL-style pointer to a QString element (QChar).

This typedef was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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Replaces occurrences of %N in this string with the corresponding argument from args. The arguments are not positional: the first of the args replaces the %N with the lowest N (all of them), the second of the args the %N with the next-lowest N etc.

Args can consist of anything that implicitly converts to QString, QStringView or QLatin1StringView.

In addition, the following types are also supported: QChar, QLatin1Char.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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[since 6.0] decltype(qTokenize(*this, std::forward<Needle>(needle), flags...)) QString::tokenize(Needle &&sep, Flags... flags) const &

[since 6.0] decltype(qTokenize(std::move(*this), std::forward<Needle>(needle), flags...)) QString::tokenize(Needle &&sep, Flags... flags) const &&

Splits the string into substring views wherever sep occurs, and returns a lazy sequence of those strings.

Equivalent to

return QStringTokenizer{std::forward<Needle>(sep), flags...};

except it works without C++17 Class Template Argument Deduction (CTAD) enabled in the compiler.

See QStringTokenizer for how sep and flags interact to form the result.

QStringTokenizer result = sv.tokenize(sep);

(without template arguments). If you can't use C++17 CTAD, you must store the return value only in auto variables:

auto result = sv.tokenize(sep);

This is because the template arguments of QStringTokenizer have a very subtle dependency on the specific tokenize() overload from which they are returned, and they don't usually correspond to the type used for the separator.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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Constructs a null string. Null strings are also considered empty.

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Constructs a string initialized with the first size characters of the QChar array unicode.

If unicode is 0, a null string is constructed.

If size is negative, unicode is assumed to point to a \0'-terminated array and its length is determined dynamically. The terminating null character is not considered part of the string.

QString makes a deep copy of the string data. The unicode data is copied as is and the Byte Order Mark is preserved if present.

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Constructs a string of size 1 containing the character ch.

Constructs a string of the given size with every character set to ch.

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Constructs a copy of the Latin-1 string str.

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Constructs a string initialized with the UTF-8 string str. The given const char8_t pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

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Constructs a string initialized with the 8-bit string str. The given const char pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this constructor by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

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Constructs a string initialized with the byte array ba. The given byte array is converted to Unicode using fromUtf8().

You can disable this constructor by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

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Constructs a copy of other.

This operation takes constant time, because QString is implicitly shared. This makes returning a QString from a function very fast. If a shared instance is modified, it will be copied (copy-on-write), and that takes linear time.

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Move-constructs a QString instance, making it point at the same object that other was pointing to.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

Destroys the string.

Appends the string str onto the end of this string.

Example:

QString x = "free";
QString y = "dom";

x.append(y);
// x == "freedom"

This is the same as using the insert() function:

x.insert(x.size(), y);

The append() function is typically very fast (constant time), because QString preallocates extra space at the end of the string data so it can grow without reallocating the entire string each time.

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This function overloads append().

Appends the character ch to this string.

This function overloads append().

Appends len characters from the QChar array str to this string.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

This function overloads append().

Appends the given string view v to this string and returns the result.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This function overloads append().

Appends the Latin-1 string str to this string.

This function overloads append().

Appends the string str to this string. The given const char pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads append().

Appends the byte array ba to this string. The given byte array is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Returns a copy of this string with the lowest numbered place marker replaced by string a, i.e., %1, %2, ..., %99.

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that argument a shall occupy. If a requires less space than fieldWidth, it is padded to fieldWidth with character fillChar. A positive fieldWidth produces right-aligned text. A negative fieldWidth produces left-aligned text.

This example shows how we might create a status string for reporting progress while processing a list of files:

QString i;           // current file's number
QString total;       // number of files to process
QString fileName;    // current file's name

QString status = QString("Processing file %1 of %2: %3")
                .arg(i).arg(total).arg(fileName);

First, arg(i) replaces %1. Then arg(total) replaces %2. Finally, arg(fileName) replaces %3.

One advantage of using arg() over asprintf() is that the order of the numbered place markers can change, if the application's strings are translated into other languages, but each arg() will still replace the lowest numbered unreplaced place marker, no matter where it appears. Also, if place marker %i appears more than once in the string, the arg() replaces all of them.

If there is no unreplaced place marker remaining, a warning message is output and the result is undefined. Place marker numbers must be in the range 1 to 99.

This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a into a string. The base must be between 2 and 36, with 8 giving octal, 10 decimal, and 16 hexadecimal numbers.

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This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a into a string. base must be between 2 and 36, with 8 giving octal, 10 decimal, and 16 hexadecimal numbers.

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This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The a argument is expressed in the given base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36.

The '%' can be followed by an 'L', in which case the sequence is replaced with a localized representation of a. The conversion uses the default locale. The default locale is determined from the system's locale settings at application startup. It can be changed using QLocale::setDefault(). The 'L' flag is ignored if base is not 10.

QString str;
str = QString("Decimal 63 is %1 in hexadecimal")
        .arg(63, 0, 16);
// str == "Decimal 63 is 3f in hexadecimal"

QLocale::setDefault(QLocale(QLocale::English, QLocale::UnitedStates));
str = QString("%1 %L2 %L3")
        .arg(12345)
        .arg(12345)
        .arg(12345, 0, 16);
// str == "12345 12,345 3039"

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This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a to a string. The base must be between 2 and 36, with 8 giving octal, 10 decimal, and 16 hexadecimal numbers.

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This function overloads arg().

The a argument is expressed in base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36. For bases other than 10, a is treated as an unsigned integer.

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The '%' can be followed by an 'L', in which case the sequence is replaced with a localized representation of a. The conversion uses the default locale, set by QLocale::setDefault(). If no default locale was specified, the system locale is used. The 'L' flag is ignored if base is not 10.

QString str;
str = QString("Decimal 63 is %1 in hexadecimal")
        .arg(63, 0, 16);
// str == "Decimal 63 is 3f in hexadecimal"

QLocale::setDefault(QLocale(QLocale::English, QLocale::UnitedStates));
str = QString("%1 %L2 %L3")
        .arg(12345)
        .arg(12345)
        .arg(12345, 0, 16);
// str == "12345 12,345 3039"

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This function overloads arg().

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a into a string. The base must be between 2 and 36.

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This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a into a string. The base must be between 2 and 36, with 8 giving octal, 10 decimal, and 16 hexadecimal numbers.

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This function overloads arg().

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

The base argument specifies the base to use when converting the integer a into a string. The base must be between 2 and 36, with 8 giving octal, 10 decimal, and 16 hexadecimal numbers.

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This function overloads arg().

Argument a is formatted according to the specified format and precision. See Floating-point Formats for details.

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a is padded to and filled with the character fillChar. A positive value produces right-aligned text; a negative value produces left-aligned text.

double d = 12.34;
QString str = QString("delta: %1").arg(d, 0, 'E', 3);
// str == "delta: 1.234E+01"

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This function overloads arg().

The a argument is interpreted as a Latin-1 character.

This function overloads arg().

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a copy of this string with the lowest-numbered place-marker replaced by string a, i.e., %1, %2, ..., %99.

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a shall occupy. If a requires less space than fieldWidth, it is padded to fieldWidth with character fillChar. A positive fieldWidth produces right-aligned text. A negative fieldWidth produces left-aligned text.

This example shows how we might create a status string for reporting progress while processing a list of files:

int i;                // current file's number
int total;            // number of files to process
QStringView fileName; // current file's name

QString status = QString("Processing file %1 of %2: %3")
                .arg(i).arg(total).arg(fileName);

First, arg(i) replaces %1. Then arg(total) replaces %2. Finally, arg(fileName) replaces %3.

One advantage of using arg() over asprintf() is that the order of the numbered place markers can change, if the application's strings are translated into other languages, but each arg() will still replace the lowest-numbered unreplaced place-marker, no matter where it appears. Also, if place-marker %i appears more than once in the string, arg() replaces all of them.

If there is no unreplaced place-marker remaining, a warning message is printed and the result is undefined. Place-marker numbers must be in the range 1 to 99.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a copy of this string with the lowest-numbered place-marker replaced by string a, i.e., %1, %2, ..., %99.

fieldWidth specifies the minimum amount of space that a shall occupy. If a requires less space than fieldWidth, it is padded to fieldWidth with character fillChar. A positive fieldWidth produces right-aligned text. A negative fieldWidth produces left-aligned text.

One advantage of using arg() over asprintf() is that the order of the numbered place markers can change, if the application's strings are translated into other languages, but each arg() will still replace the lowest-numbered unreplaced place-marker, no matter where it appears. Also, if place-marker %i appears more than once in the string, arg() replaces all of them.

If there is no unreplaced place-marker remaining, a warning message is printed and the result is undefined. Place-marker numbers must be in the range 1 to 99.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

Safely builds a formatted string from the format string cformat and an arbitrary list of arguments.

The format string supports the conversion specifiers, length modifiers, and flags provided by printf() in the standard C++ library. The cformat string and %s arguments must be UTF-8 encoded.

QString result;
QTextStream(&result) << "pi = " << 3.14;
// result == "pi = 3.14"

For translations, especially if the strings contains more than one escape sequence, you should consider using the arg() function instead. This allows the order of the replacements to be controlled by the translator.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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Returns the character at the given index position in the string.

The position must be a valid index position in the string (i.e., 0 <= position < size()).

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Returns the last character in the string. Same as at(size() - 1).

This function is provided for STL compatibility.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Returns a reference to the last character in the string. Same as operator[](size() - 1).

This function is provided for STL compatibility.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Returns an STL-style iterator pointing to the first character in the string.

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This function overloads begin().

Returns the maximum number of characters that can be stored in the string without forcing a reallocation.

The sole purpose of this function is to provide a means of fine tuning QString's memory usage. In general, you will rarely ever need to call this function. If you want to know how many characters are in the string, call size().

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Returns a const STL-style iterator pointing to the first character in the string.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Returns a const STL-style iterator pointing just after the last character in the string.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Removes n characters from the end of the string.

If n is greater than or equal to size(), the result is an empty string; if n is negative, it is equivalent to passing zero.

Example:

QString str("LOGOUT\r\n");
str.chop(2);
// str == "LOGOUT"

If you want to remove characters from the beginning of the string, use remove() instead.

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Returns a string that contains the size() - len leftmost characters of this string.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Clears the contents of the string and makes it null.

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Compares s1 with s2 and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 is less than, equal to, or greater than s2.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive, the comparison is case sensitive; otherwise the comparison is case insensitive.

Case sensitive comparison is based exclusively on the numeric Unicode values of the characters and is very fast, but is not what a human would expect. Consider sorting user-visible strings with localeAwareCompare().

int x = QString::compare("aUtO", "AuTo", Qt::CaseInsensitive);  // x == 0
int y = QString::compare("auto", "Car", Qt::CaseSensitive);     // y > 0
int z = QString::compare("auto", "Car", Qt::CaseInsensitive);   // z < 0

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This function overloads compare().

Lexically compares this string with the other string and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if this string is less than, equal to, or greater than the other string.

Same as compare(*this, other, cs).

This function overloads compare().

Same as compare(*this, other, cs).

This function overloads compare().

Performs a comparison of this with s, using the case sensitivity setting cs.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.12.

This function overloads compare().

Performs a comparison of this with ch, using the case sensitivity setting cs.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

This function overloads compare().

Performs a comparison of s1 and s2, using the case sensitivity setting cs.

This function overloads compare().

Performs a comparison of s1 and s2, using the case sensitivity setting cs.

This function overloads compare().

This function overloads compare().

Returns a const STL-style iterator pointing to the first character in the string.

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Returns a pointer to the data stored in the QString. The pointer can be used to access the characters that compose the string.

Note that the pointer remains valid only as long as the string is not modified.

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Returns a const STL-style iterator pointing just after the last character in the string.

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Returns true if this string contains an occurrence of the string str; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString str = "Peter Pan";
str.contains("peter", Qt::CaseInsensitive);    // returns true

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This function overloads contains().

Returns true if this string contains an occurrence of the character ch; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads contains().

Returns true if this string contains an occurrence of the latin-1 string str; otherwise returns false.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.3.

This function overloads contains().

Returns true if this string contains an occurrence of the string view str; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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Returns true if the regular expression re matches somewhere in this string; otherwise returns false.

If the match is successful and rmatch is not nullptr, it also writes the results of the match into the QRegularExpressionMatch object pointed to by rmatch.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.1.

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Returns the number of (potentially overlapping) occurrences of the string str in this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

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This function overloads count().

Returns the number of occurrences of character ch in the string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

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This function overloads count().

Returns the number of (potentially overlapping) occurrences of the string view str in this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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This function overloads count().

Returns the number of times the regular expression re matches in the string.

For historical reasons, this function counts overlapping matches, so in the example below, there are four instances of "ana" or "ama":

QString str = "banana and panama";
str.count(QRegularExpression("a[nm]a"));    // returns 4

This behavior is different from simply iterating over the matches in the string using QRegularExpressionMatchIterator.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Returns a const STL-style reverse iterator pointing to the first character in the string, in reverse order.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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Returns a const STL-style reverse iterator pointing just after the last character in the string, in reverse order.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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Returns a pointer to the data stored in the QString. The pointer can be used to access and modify the characters that compose the string.

Unlike constData() and unicode(), the returned data is always '\0'-terminated.

Example:

QString str = "Hello world";
QChar *data = str.data();
while (!data->isNull()) {
    qDebug() << data->unicode();
    ++data;
}

Note that the pointer remains valid only as long as the string is not modified by other means. For read-only access, constData() is faster because it never causes a deep copy to occur.

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This is an overloaded function.

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Returns an STL-style iterator pointing just after the last character in the string.

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This function overloads end().

Returns true if the string ends with s; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

QString str = "Bananas";
str.endsWith("anas");         // returns true
str.endsWith("pple");         // returns false

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This function overloads endsWith().

Returns true if the string ends with the string view str; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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This function overloads endsWith().

Returns true if the string ends with c; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads endsWith().

Removes from the string the characters in the half-open range [ first , last ). Returns an iterator to the character referred to by last before the erase.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

Sets every character in the string to character ch. If size is different from -1 (default), the string is resized to size beforehand.

Example:

QString str = "Berlin";
str.fill('z');
// str == "zzzzzz"

str.fill('A', 2);
// str == "AA"

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Returns a string that contains the first n characters of this string.

QString x = "Pineapple";
QString y = x.first(4);      // y == "Pine"

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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Constructs a new QString containing a copy of the string CFString.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

Returns a QString initialized with the first size characters of the Latin-1 string str.

If size is -1, strlen(str) is used instead.

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This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the Latin-1 string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the Latin-1 string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

Returns a QString initialized with the first size characters of the 8-bit string str.

If size is -1, strlen(str) is used instead.

On Unix systems this is equivalen to fromUtf8(), on Windows the systems current code page is being used.

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This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the 8-bit string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the 8-bit string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

Constructs a new QString containing a copy of the string NSString.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

Constructs a QString that uses the first size Unicode characters in the array unicode. The data in unicode is not copied. The caller must be able to guarantee that unicode will not be deleted or modified as long as the QString (or an unmodified copy of it) exists.

Any attempts to modify the QString or copies of it will cause it to create a deep copy of the data, ensuring that the raw data isn't modified.

Here is an example of how we can use a QRegularExpression on raw data in memory without requiring to copy the data into a QString:

QRegularExpression pattern("\u00A4");
static const QChar unicode[] = {
        0x005A, 0x007F, 0x00A4, 0x0060,
        0x1009, 0x0020, 0x0020};
qsizetype size = sizeof(unicode) / sizeof(QChar);

QString str = QString::fromRawData(unicode, size);
if (str.contains(pattern) {
    // ...
}

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Returns a copy of the str string. The given string is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

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Returns a copy of the str string. The given string is assumed to be encoded in UTF-16.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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Returns a copy of the str string. The given string is assumed to be encoded in UCS-4.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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Returns a copy of the str string. The given string is assumed to be encoded in utf16 if the size of wchar_t is 2 bytes (e.g. on windows) and ucs4 if the size of wchar_t is 4 bytes (most Unix systems).

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Returns a QString initialized with the first size characters of the Unicode string unicode (ISO-10646-UCS-4 encoded).

If size is -1 (default), unicode must be \0'-terminated.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.3.

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Returns a QString initialized with the first size bytes of the UTF-8 string str.

If size is -1, strlen(str) is used instead.

UTF-8 is a Unicode codec and can represent all characters in a Unicode string like QString. However, invalid sequences are possible with UTF-8 and, if any such are found, they will be replaced with one or more "replacement characters", or suppressed. These include non-Unicode sequences, non-characters, overlong sequences or surrogate codepoints encoded into UTF-8.

This function can be used to process incoming data incrementally as long as all UTF-8 characters are terminated within the incoming data. Any unterminated characters at the end of the string will be replaced or suppressed. In order to do stateful decoding, please use QStringDecoder.

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This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the UTF-8 string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a QString initialized with the UTF-8 string str.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

This is an overloaded function.

This overload is only available when compiling in C++20 mode.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

This is an overloaded function.

This overload is only available when compiling in C++20 mode.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

Returns a QString initialized with the first size characters of the Unicode string unicode (ISO-10646-UTF-16 encoded).

If size is -1 (default), unicode must be \0'-terminated.

This function checks for a Byte Order Mark (BOM). If it is missing, host byte order is assumed.

This function is slow compared to the other Unicode conversions. Use QString(const QChar *, qsizetype) or QString(const QChar *) if possible.

QString makes a deep copy of the Unicode data.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.3.

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Returns a copy of the string, where the encoding of string depends on the size of wchar. If wchar is 4 bytes, the string is interpreted as UCS-4, if wchar is 2 bytes it is interpreted as UTF-16.

If size is -1 (default), the string must be '\0'-terminated.

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Returns the first character in the string. Same as at(0).

This function is provided for STL compatibility.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Returns a reference to the first character in the string. Same as operator[](0).

This function is provided for STL compatibility.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Returns the index position of the first occurrence of the string str in this string, searching forward from index position from. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "sticky question";
QString y = "sti";
x.indexOf(y);               // returns 0
x.indexOf(y, 1);            // returns 10
x.indexOf(y, 10);           // returns 10
x.indexOf(y, 11);           // returns -1

If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if it is -2, at the next to last character and so on.

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This function overloads indexOf().

Returns the index position of the first occurrence of the character ch in the string, searching forward from index position from. Returns -1 if ch could not be found.

Returns the index position of the first occurrence of the string str in this string, searching forward from index position from. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "sticky question";
QString y = "sti";
x.indexOf(y);               // returns 0
x.indexOf(y, 1);            // returns 10
x.indexOf(y, 10);           // returns 10
x.indexOf(y, 11);           // returns -1

If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if it is -2, at the next to last character and so on.

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This function overloads indexOf().

Returns the index position of the first occurrence of the string view str in this string, searching forward from index position from. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if it is -2, at the next to last character and so on.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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Returns the index position of the first match of the regular expression re in the string, searching forward from index position from. Returns -1 if re didn't match anywhere.

If the match is successful and rmatch is not nullptr, it also writes the results of the match into the QRegularExpressionMatch object pointed to by rmatch.

Example:

QString str = "the minimum";
str.indexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"), 0);       // returns 4

QString str = "the minimum";
QRegularExpressionMatch match;
str.indexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"), 0, &match);       // returns 4
// match.captured() == mi

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

Inserts the string str at the given index position and returns a reference to this string.

Example:

QString str = "Meal";
str.insert(1, QString("ontr"));
// str == "Montreal"

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by str.

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This function overloads insert().

Inserts ch at the given index position in the string.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by ch.

This function overloads insert().

Inserts the first size characters of the QChar array unicode at the given index position in the string.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by size characters of the QChar array unicode.

This function overloads insert().

Inserts the string view str at the given index position and returns a reference to this string.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by str.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This function overloads insert().

Inserts the Latin-1 string str at the given index position.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by str.

This function overloads insert().

Inserts the C string str at the given index position and returns a reference to this string.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by str.

This function is not available when QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII is defined.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

This function overloads insert().

Interprets the contents of str as UTF-8, inserts the Unicode string it encodes at the given index position and returns a reference to this string.

This string grows to accommodate the insertion. If position is beyond the end of the string, space characters are appended to the string to reach this position, followed by str.

This function is not available when QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII is defined.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

Returns true if the string has no characters; otherwise returns false.

Example:

QString().isEmpty();            // returns true
QString("").isEmpty();          // returns true
QString("x").isEmpty();         // returns false
QString("abc").isEmpty();       // returns false

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Returns true if the string is lowercase, that is, it's identical to its toLower() folding.

Note that this does not mean that the string does not contain uppercase letters (some uppercase letters do not have a lowercase folding; they are left unchanged by toLower()). For more information, refer to the Unicode standard, section 3.13.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.12.

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Returns true if this string is null; otherwise returns false.

Example:

QString().isNull();             // returns true
QString("").isNull();           // returns false
QString("abc").isNull();        // returns false

Qt makes a distinction between null strings and empty strings for historical reasons. For most applications, what matters is whether or not a string contains any data, and this can be determined using the isEmpty() function.

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Returns true if the string is read right to left.

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Returns true if the string is uppercase, that is, it's identical to its toUpper() folding.

Note that this does not mean that the string does not contain lowercase letters (some lowercase letters do not have a uppercase folding; they are left unchanged by toUpper()). For more information, refer to the Unicode standard, section 3.13.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.12.

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Returns true if the string contains valid UTF-16 encoded data, or false otherwise.

Note that this function does not perform any special validation of the data; it merely checks if it can be successfully decoded from UTF-16. The data is assumed to be in host byte order; the presence of a BOM is meaningless.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.15.

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Returns the string that contains the last n characters of this string.

QString x = "Pineapple";
QString y = x.last(5);      // y == "apple"

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string str in this string, searching backward from index position from. If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if from is -2, at the next to last character and so on. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "crazy azimuths";
QString y = "az";
x.lastIndexOf(y);           // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 6);        // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 5);        // returns 2
x.lastIndexOf(y, 1);        // returns -1

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

This function was introduced in Qt 6.3.

This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the character ch, searching backward from position from.

This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string str in this string. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "crazy azimuths";
QString y = "az";
x.lastIndexOf(y);           // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 6);        // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 5);        // returns 2
x.lastIndexOf(y, 1);        // returns -1

This function was introduced in Qt 6.2.

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string str in this string, searching backward from index position from. If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if from is -2, at the next to last character and so on. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "crazy azimuths";
QString y = "az";
x.lastIndexOf(y);           // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 6);        // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 5);        // returns 2
x.lastIndexOf(y, 1);        // returns -1

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string str in this string. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString x = "crazy azimuths";
QString y = "az";
x.lastIndexOf(y);           // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 6);        // returns 6
x.lastIndexOf(y, 5);        // returns 2
x.lastIndexOf(y, 1);        // returns -1

This function was introduced in Qt 6.2.

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string view str in this string. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.2.

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last occurrence of the string view str in this string, searching backward from index position from. If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if from is -2, at the next to last character and so on. Returns -1 if str is not found.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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This function overloads lastIndexOf().

Returns the index position of the last match of the regular expression re in the string. Returns -1 if re didn't match anywhere.

If the match is successful and rmatch is not nullptr, it also writes the results of the match into the QRegularExpressionMatch object pointed to by rmatch.

Example:

QString str = "the minimum";
str.lastIndexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"));      // returns 8

QString str = "the minimum";
QRegularExpressionMatch match;
str.lastIndexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"), -1, &match);      // returns 8
// match.captured() == mu

This function was introduced in Qt 6.2.

Returns the index position of the last match of the regular expression re in the string, which starts before the index position from. If from is -1, the search starts at the last character; if from is -2, at the next to last character and so on. Returns -1 if re didn't match anywhere.

If the match is successful and rmatch is not nullptr, it also writes the results of the match into the QRegularExpressionMatch object pointed to by rmatch.

Example:

QString str = "the minimum";
str.lastIndexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"));      // returns 8

QString str = "the minimum";
QRegularExpressionMatch match;
str.lastIndexOf(QRegularExpression("m[aeiou]"), -1, &match);      // returns 8
// match.captured() == mu

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

Returns a substring that contains the n leftmost characters of the string.

If you know that n cannot be out of bounds, use first() instead in new code, because it is faster.

The entire string is returned if n is greater than or equal to size(), or less than zero.

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Returns a string of size width that contains this string padded by the fill character.

If truncate is false and the size() of the string is more than width, then the returned string is a copy of the string.

QString s = "apple";
QString t = s.leftJustified(8, '.');    // t == "apple..."

If truncate is true and the size() of the string is more than width, then any characters in a copy of the string after position width are removed, and the copy is returned.

QString str = "Pineapple";
str = str.leftJustified(5, '.', true);    // str == "Pinea"

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Returns the number of characters in this string. Equivalent to size().

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Compares s1 with s2 and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 is less than, equal to, or greater than s2.

The comparison is performed in a locale- and also platform-dependent manner. Use this function to present sorted lists of strings to the user.

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This function overloads localeAwareCompare().

Compares this string with the other string and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if this string is less than, equal to, or greater than the other string.

The comparison is performed in a locale- and also platform-dependent manner. Use this function to present sorted lists of strings to the user.

Same as localeAwareCompare(*this, other).

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This function overloads localeAwareCompare().

Compares this string with the other string and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if this string is less than, equal to, or greater than the other string.

The comparison is performed in a locale- and also platform-dependent manner. Use this function to present sorted lists of strings to the user.

Same as localeAwareCompare(*this, other).

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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This function overloads localeAwareCompare().

Compares s1 with s2 and returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if s1 is less than, equal to, or greater than s2.

The comparison is performed in a locale- and also platform-dependent manner. Use this function to present sorted lists of strings to the user.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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Returns a string that contains n characters of this string, starting at the specified position index.

If you know that position and n cannot be out of bounds, use sliced() instead in new code, because it is faster.

Returns a null string if the position index exceeds the length of the string. If there are less than n characters available in the string starting at the given position, or if n is -1 (default), the function returns all characters that are available from the specified position.

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Returns the string in the given Unicode normalization mode, according to the given version of the Unicode standard.

Returns a string equivalent of the number n according to the specified base.

The base is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36. For bases other than 10, n is treated as an unsigned integer.

The formatting always uses QLocale::C, i.e., English/UnitedStates. To get a localized string representation of a number, use QLocale::toString() with the appropriate locale.

long a = 63;
QString s = QString::number(a, 16);             // s == "3f"
QString t = QString::number(a, 16).toUpper();     // t == "3F"

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This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

Returns a string representing the floating-point number n.

Returns a string that represents n, formatted according to the specified format and precision.

For formats with an exponent, the exponent will show its sign and have at least two digits, left-padding the exponent with zero if needed.

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Prepends the string str to the beginning of this string and returns a reference to this string.

This operation is typically very fast (constant time), because QString preallocates extra space at the beginning of the string data, so it can grow without reallocating the entire string each time.

Example:

QString x = "ship";
QString y = "air";
x.prepend(y);
// x == "airship"

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This function overloads prepend().

Prepends the character ch to this string.

This function overloads prepend().

Prepends len characters from the QChar array str to this string and returns a reference to this string.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

This function overloads prepend().

Prepends the string view str to the beginning of this string and returns a reference to this string.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This function overloads prepend().

Prepends the Latin-1 string str to this string.

This function overloads prepend().

Prepends the string str to this string. The const char pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads prepend().

Prepends the byte array ba to this string. The byte array is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function is provided for STL compatibility, appending the given other string onto the end of this string. It is equivalent to append(other).

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This is an overloaded function.

Appends the given ch character onto the end of this string.

This function is provided for STL compatibility, prepending the given other string to the beginning of this string. It is equivalent to prepend(other).

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This is an overloaded function.

Prepends the given ch character to the beginning of this string.

Returns a STL-style reverse iterator pointing to the first character in the string, in reverse order.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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This is an overloaded function.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

Removes n characters from the string, starting at the given position index, and returns a reference to the string.

If the specified position index is within the string, but position + n is beyond the end of the string, the string is truncated at the specified position.

QString s = "Montreal";
s.remove(1, 4);
// s == "Meal"

Element removal will preserve the string's capacity and not reduce the amount of allocated memory. To shed extra capacity and free as much memory as possible, call squeeze() after the last change to the string's size.

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Removes every occurrence of the character ch in this string, and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString t = "Ali Baba";
t.remove(QChar('a'), Qt::CaseInsensitive);
// t == "li Bb"

This is the same as replace(ch, "", cs).

Element removal will preserve the string's capacity and not reduce the amount of allocated memory. To shed extra capacity and free as much memory as possible, call squeeze() after the last change to the string's size.

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This is an overloaded function.

Removes every occurrence of the given str string in this string, and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This is the same as replace(str, "", cs).

Element removal will preserve the string's capacity and not reduce the amount of allocated memory. To shed extra capacity and free as much memory as possible, call squeeze() after the last change to the string's size.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.11.

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Removes every occurrence of the given str string in this string, and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This is the same as replace(str, "", cs).

Element removal will preserve the string's capacity and not reduce the amount of allocated memory. To shed extra capacity and free as much memory as possible, call squeeze() after the last change to the string's size.

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Removes every occurrence of the regular expression re in the string, and returns a reference to the string. For example:

QString r = "Telephone";
r.remove(QRegularExpression("[aeiou]."));
// r == "The"

Element removal will preserve the string's capacity and not reduce the amount of allocated memory. To shed extra capacity and free as much memory as possible, call squeeze() after the last change to the string's size.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Removes all elements for which the predicate pred returns true from the string. Returns a reference to the string.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

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Returns a STL-style reverse iterator pointing just after the last character in the string, in reverse order.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

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This is an overloaded function.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.6.

Returns a copy of this string repeated the specified number of times.

If times is less than 1, an empty string is returned.

Example:

QString str("ab");
str.repeated(4);            // returns "abababab"

Replaces n characters beginning at index position with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

Example:

QString x = "Say yes!";
QString y = "no";
x.replace(4, 3, y);
// x == "Say no!"

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This function overloads replace().

Replaces n characters beginning at index position with the character after and returns a reference to this string.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces n characters beginning at index position with the first size characters of the QChar array unicode and returns a reference to this string.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the character before with the character after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces each occurrence in this string of the first blen characters of before with the first alen characters of after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the string before with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the string before with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the string before with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the string before with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

Example:

QString str = "colour behaviour flavour neighbour";
str.replace(QString("ou"), QString("o"));
// str == "color behavior flavor neighbor"

Example:

QString equis = "xxxxxx";
equis.replace("xx", "x");
// equis == "xxx"

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the character ch in the string with after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the character c with the string after and returns a reference to this string.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function overloads replace().

Replaces every occurrence of the regular expression re in the string with after. Returns a reference to the string. For example:

QString s = "Banana";
s.replace(QRegularExpression("a[mn]"), "ox");
// s == "Boxoxa"

For regular expressions containing capturing groups, occurrences of \1, \2, ..., in after are replaced with the string captured by the corresponding capturing group.

QString t = "A <i>bon mot</i>.";
t.replace(QRegularExpression("<i>([^<]*)</i>"), "\\emph{\\1}");
// t == "A \\emph{bon mot}."

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Ensures the string has space for at least size characters.

If you know in advance how large the string will be, you can call this function to save repeated reallocation in the course of building it. This can improve performance when building a string incrementally. A long sequence of operations that add to a string may trigger several reallocations, the last of which may leave you with significantly more space than you really need, which is less efficient than doing a single allocation of the right size at the start.

If in doubt about how much space shall be needed, it is usually better to use an upper bound as size, or a high estimate of the most likely size, if a strict upper bound would be much bigger than this. If size is an underestimate, the string will grow as needed once the reserved size is exceeded, which may lead to a larger allocation than your best overestimate would have and will slow the operation that triggers it.

This function is useful for code that needs to build up a long string and wants to avoid repeated reallocation. In this example, we want to add to the string until some condition is true, and we're fairly sure that size is large enough to make a call to reserve() worthwhile:

QString result;
qsizetype maxSize;
bool condition;
QChar nextChar;

result.reserve(maxSize);

while (condition)
    result.append(nextChar);

result.squeeze();

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Sets the size of the string to size characters.

If size is greater than the current size, the string is extended to make it size characters long with the extra characters added to the end. The new characters are uninitialized.

If size is less than the current size, characters beyond position size are excluded from the string.

Example:

QString s = "Hello world";
s.resize(5);
// s == "Hello"

s.resize(8);
// s == "Hello???" (where ? stands for any character)

If you want to append a certain number of identical characters to the string, use the resize(qsizetype, QChar) overload.

If you want to expand the string so that it reaches a certain width and fill the new positions with a particular character, use the leftJustified() function:

If size is negative, it is equivalent to passing zero.

QString r = "Hello";
r = r.leftJustified(10, ' ');
// r == "Hello     "

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This is an overloaded function.

Unlike resize(qsizetype), this overload initializes the new characters to fillChar:

QString t = "Hello";
r.resize(t.size() + 10, 'X');
// t == "HelloXXXXXXXXXX"

This function was introduced in Qt 5.7.

Returns a substring that contains the n rightmost characters of the string.

If you know that n cannot be out of bounds, use last() instead in new code, because it is faster.

The entire string is returned if n is greater than or equal to size(), or less than zero.

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Returns a string of size() width that contains the fill character followed by the string. For example:

QString s = "apple";
QString t = s.rightJustified(8, '.');    // t == "...apple"

If truncate is false and the size() of the string is more than width, then the returned string is a copy of the string.

If truncate is true and the size() of the string is more than width, then the resulting string is truncated at position width.

QString str = "Pineapple";
str = str.rightJustified(5, '.', true);    // str == "Pinea"

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This function returns a section of the string.

This string is treated as a sequence of fields separated by the character, sep. The returned string consists of the fields from position start to position end inclusive. If end is not specified, all fields from position start to the end of the string are included. Fields are numbered 0, 1, 2, etc., counting from the left, and -1, -2, etc., counting from right to left.

The flags argument can be used to affect some aspects of the function's behavior, e.g. whether to be case sensitive, whether to skip empty fields and how to deal with leading and trailing separators; see SectionFlags.

QString str;
QString csv = "forename,middlename,surname,phone";
QString path = "/usr/local/bin/myapp"; // First field is empty
QString::SectionFlag flag = QString::SectionSkipEmpty;

str = csv.section(',', 2, 2);   // str == "surname"
str = path.section('/', 3, 4);  // str == "bin/myapp"
str = path.section('/', 3, 3, flag); // str == "myapp"

If start or end is negative, we count fields from the right of the string, the right-most field being -1, the one from right-most field being -2, and so on.

str = csv.section(',', -3, -2);  // str == "middlename,surname"
str = path.section('/', -1); // str == "myapp"

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This function overloads section().

QString str;
QString data = "forename**middlename**surname**phone";

str = data.section("**", 2, 2); // str == "surname"
str = data.section("**", -3, -2); // str == "middlename**surname"

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This function overloads section().

This string is treated as a sequence of fields separated by the regular expression, re.

QString line = "forename\tmiddlename  surname \t \t phone";
QRegularExpression sep("\\s+");
str = line.section(sep, 2, 2); // str == "surname"
str = line.section(sep, -3, -2); // str == "middlename  surname"

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

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Sets the string to the printed value of n in the specified base, and returns a reference to the string.

The base is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36.

QString str;
str.setNum(1234);       // str == "1234"

The formatting always uses QLocale::C, i.e., English/UnitedStates. To get a localized string representation of a number, use QLocale::toString() with the appropriate locale.

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This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

This is an overloaded function.

Sets the string to the printed value of n, formatted according to the given format and precision, and returns a reference to the string.

The formatting always uses QLocale::C, i.e., English/UnitedStates. To get a localized string representation of a number, use QLocale::toString() with the appropriate locale.

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This is an overloaded function.

Sets the string to the printed value of n, formatted according to the given format and precision, and returns a reference to the string.

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Resets the QString to use the first size Unicode characters in the array unicode. The data in unicode is not copied. The caller must be able to guarantee that unicode will not be deleted or modified as long as the QString (or an unmodified copy of it) exists.

This function can be used instead of fromRawData() to re-use existings QString objects to save memory re-allocations.

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Resizes the string to size characters and copies unicode into the string.

If unicode is nullptr, nothing is copied, but the string is still resized to size.

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Resizes the string to size characters and copies unicode into the string.

If unicode is nullptr, nothing is copied, but the string is still resized to size.

Note that unlike fromUtf16(), this function does not consider BOMs and possibly differing byte ordering.

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This function is provided for STL compatibility. It is equivalent to squeeze().

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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Returns a string that has whitespace removed from the start and the end, and that has each sequence of internal whitespace replaced with a single space.

Whitespace means any character for which QChar::isSpace() returns true. This includes the ASCII characters '\t', '\n', '\v', '\f', '\r', and ' '.

Example:

QString str = "  lots\t of\nwhitespace\r\n ";
str = str.simplified();
// str == "lots of whitespace";

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Returns the number of characters in this string.

The last character in the string is at position size() - 1.

Example:

QString str = "World";
qsizetype n = str.size();   // n == 5
str.data()[0];              // returns 'W'
str.data()[4];              // returns 'd'

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Returns a string that contains n characters of this string, starting at position pos.

QString x = "Nine pineapples";
QString y = x.sliced(5, 4);            // y == "pine"
QString z = x.sliced(5);               // z == "pineapples"

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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This is an overloaded function.

Returns a string that contains the portion of this string starting at position pos and extending to its end.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

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Splits the string into substrings wherever sep occurs, and returns the list of those strings. If sep does not match anywhere in the string, split() returns a single-element list containing this string.

cs specifies whether sep should be matched case sensitively or case insensitively.

If behavior is Qt::SkipEmptyParts, empty entries don't appear in the result. By default, empty entries are kept.

Example:

QString str = QStringLiteral("a,,b,c");

QStringList list1 = str.split(u',');
// list1: [ "a", "", "b", "c" ]

QStringList list2 = str.split(u',', Qt::SkipEmptyParts);
// list2: [ "a", "b", "c" ]

If sep is empty, split() returns an empty string, followed by each of the string's characters, followed by another empty string:

QString str = "abc";
auto parts = str.split(QString());
// parts: {"", "a", "b", "c", ""}

To understand this behavior, recall that the empty string matches everywhere, so the above is qualitatively the same as:

QString str = "/a/b/c/";
auto parts = str.split(u'/');
// parts: {"", "a", "b", "c", ""}

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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This is an overloaded function.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

This is an overloaded function.

Splits the string into substrings wherever the regular expression re matches, and returns the list of those strings. If re does not match anywhere in the string, split() returns a single-element list containing this string.

Here is an example where we extract the words in a sentence using one or more whitespace characters as the separator:

QString str;
QStringList list;

str = "Some  text\n\twith  strange whitespace.";
list = str.split(QRegularExpression("\\s+"));
// list: [ "Some", "text", "with", "strange", "whitespace." ]

Here is a similar example, but this time we use any sequence of non-word characters as the separator:

str = "This time, a normal English sentence.";
list = str.split(QRegularExpression("\\W+"), Qt::SkipEmptyParts);
// list: [ "This", "time", "a", "normal", "English", "sentence" ]

Here is a third example where we use a zero-length assertion, \b (word boundary), to split the string into an alternating sequence of non-word and word tokens:

str = "Now: this sentence fragment.";
list = str.split(QRegularExpression("\\b"));
// list: [ "", "Now", ": ", "this", " ", "sentence", " ", "fragment", "." ]

This function was introduced in Qt 5.14.

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Releases any memory not required to store the character data.

The sole purpose of this function is to provide a means of fine tuning QString's memory usage. In general, you will rarely ever need to call this function.

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Returns true if the string starts with s; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

QString str = "Bananas";
str.startsWith("Ban");     // returns true
str.startsWith("Car");     // returns false

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This is an overloaded function.

Returns true if the string starts with the string view str; otherwise returns false.

If cs is Qt::CaseSensitive (default), the search is case-sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.10.

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This function overloads startsWith().

This function overloads startsWith().

Returns true if the string starts with c; otherwise returns false.

Swaps string other with this string. This operation is very fast and never fails.

Creates a CFString from a QString.

The caller owns the CFString and is responsible for releasing it.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

Returns the case folded equivalent of the string. For most Unicode characters this is the same as toLower().

Returns the string converted to a double value.

Returns an infinity if the conversion overflows or 0.0 if the conversion fails for other reasons (e.g. underflow).

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

QString str = "1234.56";
double val = str.toDouble();   // val == 1234.56

bool ok;
double d;

d = QString( "1234.56e-02" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == true, d == 12.3456

d = QString( "1234.56e-02 Volt" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == false, d == 0

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toDouble()

d = QString( "1234,56" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == false
d = QString( "1234.56" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == true, d == 1234.56

For historical reasons, this function does not handle thousands group separators. If you need to convert such numbers, use QLocale::toDouble().

d = QString( "1,234,567.89" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == false
d = QString( "1234567.89" ).toDouble(&ok); // ok == true

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns the string converted to a float value.

Returns an infinity if the conversion overflows or 0.0 if the conversion fails for other reasons (e.g. underflow).

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toFloat()

For historical reasons, this function does not handle thousands group separators. If you need to convert such numbers, use QLocale::toFloat().

Example:

QString str1 = "1234.56";
str1.toFloat();             // returns 1234.56

bool ok;
QString str2 = "R2D2";
str2.toFloat(&ok);          // returns 0.0, sets ok to false

QString str3 = "1234.56 Volt";
str3.toFloat(&ok);          // returns 0.0, sets ok to false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Converts a plain text string to an HTML string with HTML metacharacters <, >, &, and " replaced by HTML entities.

Example:

QString plain = "#include <QtCore>"
QString html = plain.toHtmlEscaped();
// html == "#include <QtCore>"

This function was introduced in Qt 5.0.

Returns the string converted to an int using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toInt()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;
int hex = str.toInt(&ok, 16);       // hex == 255, ok == true
int dec = str.toInt(&ok, 10);       // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns a Latin-1 representation of the string as a QByteArray.

The returned byte array is undefined if the string contains non-Latin1 characters. Those characters may be suppressed or replaced with a question mark.

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Returns the local 8-bit representation of the string as a QByteArray. The returned byte array is undefined if the string contains characters not supported by the local 8-bit encoding.

On Unix systems this is equivalen to toUtf8(), on Windows the systems current code page is being used.

If this string contains any characters that cannot be encoded in the locale, the returned byte array is undefined. Those characters may be suppressed or replaced by another.

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Returns the string converted to a long using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toLongLong()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

long hex = str.toLong(&ok, 16);     // hex == 255, ok == true
long dec = str.toLong(&ok, 10);     // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns the string converted to a long long using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toLongLong()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

qint64 hex = str.toLongLong(&ok, 16);      // hex == 255, ok == true
qint64 dec = str.toLongLong(&ok, 10);      // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns a lowercase copy of the string.

QString str = "The Qt PROJECT";
str = str.toLower();        // str == "the qt project"

The case conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent case folding use QLocale::toLower()

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Creates a NSString from a QString.

The NSString is autoreleased.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

Returns the string converted to a short using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toShort()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

short hex = str.toShort(&ok, 16);   // hex == 255, ok == true
short dec = str.toShort(&ok, 10);   // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns a std::string object with the data contained in this QString. The Unicode data is converted into 8-bit characters using the toUtf8() function.

This method is mostly useful to pass a QString to a function that accepts a std::string object.

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Returns a std::u16string object with the data contained in this QString. The Unicode data is the same as returned by the utf16() method.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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Returns a std::u32string object with the data contained in this QString. The Unicode data is the same as returned by the toUcs4() method.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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Returns a std::wstring object with the data contained in this QString. The std::wstring is encoded in utf16 on platforms where wchar_t is 2 bytes wide (e.g. windows) and in ucs4 on platforms where wchar_t is 4 bytes wide (most Unix systems).

This method is mostly useful to pass a QString to a function that accepts a std::wstring object.

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Returns the string converted to an unsigned int using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toUInt()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

uint hex = str.toUInt(&ok, 16);     // hex == 255, ok == true
uint dec = str.toUInt(&ok, 10);     // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns the string converted to an unsigned long using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toULongLong()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

ulong hex = str.toULong(&ok, 16);   // hex == 255, ok == true
ulong dec = str.toULong(&ok, 10);   // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns the string converted to an unsigned long long using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toULongLong()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

quint64 hex = str.toULongLong(&ok, 16);    // hex == 255, ok == true
quint64 dec = str.toULongLong(&ok, 10);    // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns the string converted to an unsigned short using base base, which is 10 by default and must be between 2 and 36, or 0. Returns 0 if the conversion fails.

If ok is not nullptr, failure is reported by setting *ok to false, and success by setting *ok to true.

If base is 0, the C language convention is used: if the string begins with "0x", base 16 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0b", base 2 is used; otherwise, if the string begins with "0", base 8 is used; otherwise, base 10 is used.

The string conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent conversion use QLocale::toUShort()

Example:

QString str = "FF";
bool ok;

ushort hex = str.toUShort(&ok, 16);     // hex == 255, ok == true
ushort dec = str.toUShort(&ok, 10);     // dec == 0, ok == false

This function ignores leading and trailing whitespace.

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Returns a UCS-4/UTF-32 representation of the string as a QList<uint>.

UCS-4 is a Unicode codec and therefore it is lossless. All characters from this string will be encoded in UCS-4. Any invalid sequence of code units in this string is replaced by the Unicode's replacement character (QChar::ReplacementCharacter, which corresponds to U+FFFD).

The returned list is not \0'-terminated.

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Returns an uppercase copy of the string.

QString str = "TeXt";
str = str.toUpper();        // str == "TEXT"

The case conversion will always happen in the 'C' locale. For locale-dependent case folding use QLocale::toUpper()

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Returns a UTF-8 representation of the string as a QByteArray.

UTF-8 is a Unicode codec and can represent all characters in a Unicode string like QString.

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Fills the array with the data contained in this QString object. The array is encoded in UTF-16 on platforms where wchar_t is 2 bytes wide (e.g. windows) and in UCS-4 on platforms where wchar_t is 4 bytes wide (most Unix systems).

array has to be allocated by the caller and contain enough space to hold the complete string (allocating the array with the same length as the string is always sufficient).

This function returns the actual length of the string in array.

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Returns a string that has whitespace removed from the start and the end.

Whitespace means any character for which QChar::isSpace() returns true. This includes the ASCII characters '\t', '\n', '\v', '\f', '\r', and ' '.

Example:

QString str = "  lots\t of\nwhitespace\r\n ";
str = str.trimmed();
// str == "lots\t of\nwhitespace"

Unlike simplified(), trimmed() leaves internal whitespace alone.

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Truncates the string at the given position index.

If the specified position index is beyond the end of the string, nothing happens.

Example:

QString str = "Vladivostok";
str.truncate(4);
// str == "Vlad"

If position is negative, it is equivalent to passing zero.

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Returns a Unicode representation of the string. The result remains valid until the string is modified.

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Returns the QString as a '\0'-terminated array of unsigned shorts. The result remains valid until the string is modified.

The returned string is in host byte order.

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Equivalent method to asprintf(), but takes a va_list ap instead a list of variable arguments. See the asprintf() documentation for an explanation of cformat.

This method does not call the va_end macro, the caller is responsible to call va_end on ap.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

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This function overloads operator!=().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator!=().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Appends the string other onto the end of this string and returns a reference to this string.

Example:

QString x = "free";
QString y = "dom";
x += y;
// x == "freedom"

This operation is typically very fast (constant time), because QString preallocates extra space at the end of the string data so it can grow without reallocating the entire string each time.

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This function overloads operator+=().

Appends the character ch to the string.

This function overloads operator+=().

Appends the string view str to this string.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.0.

This function overloads operator+=().

Appends the Latin-1 string str to this string.

This function overloads operator+=().

Appends the string str to this string. The const char pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator+=().

Appends the byte array ba to this string. The byte array is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the ba byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this function by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Returns true if this string is lexically less than string other. Otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator<().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator<().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this operator QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator<=().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator<=().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Assigns other to this string and returns a reference to this string.

This function overloads operator=().

Sets the string to contain the single character ch.

This function overloads operator=().

Assigns the Latin-1 string str to this string.

Move-assigns other to this QString instance.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.2.

This function overloads operator=().

Assigns str to this string. The const char pointer is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII or QT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator=().

Assigns ba to this string. The byte array is converted to Unicode using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator==().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator==().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Returns true if this string is lexically equal to the parameter string other. Otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator>().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator>().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator>=().

The other const char pointer is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

This function overloads operator>=().

The other byte array is converted to a QString using the fromUtf8() function. If any NUL characters ('\0') are embedded in the byte array, they will be included in the transformation.

You can disable this operator by defining QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications. This can be useful if you want to ensure that all user-visible strings go through QObject::tr(), for example.

Returns the character at the specified position in the string as a modifiable reference.

Example:

QString str;

if (str[0] == QChar('?'))
    str[0] = QChar('_');

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This function overloads operator[]().

Removes all elements that compare equal to t from the string s. Returns the number of elements removed, if any.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

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Removes all elements for which the predicate pred returns true from the string s. Returns the number of elements removed, if any.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.1.

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Returns true if string s1 is not equal to string s2; otherwise returns false.

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Returns true if string s1 is not equal to string s2. Otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator!=().

Returns true if s1 is not equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

For s1 != 0, this is equivalent to compare( s1, s2 ) != 0. Note that no string is equal to s1 being 0.

Literal operator that creates a QString out of the first size characters in the char16_t string literal str.

The QString is created at compile time, and the generated string data is stored in the read-only segment of the compiled object file. Duplicate literals may share the same read-only memory. This functionality is interchangeable with QStringLiteral, but saves typing when many string literals are present in the code.

The following code creates a QString:

using namespace Qt::Literals::StringLiterals;

auto str = u"hello"_s;

This function was introduced in Qt 6.4.

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Returns a string which is the result of concatenating s1 and s2.

Returns a string which is the result of concatenating s1 and s2 (s2 is converted to Unicode using the QString::fromUtf8() function).

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Returns a string which is the result of concatenating s1 and s2 (s1 is converted to Unicode using the QString::fromUtf8() function).

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This function overloads operator<().

Returns true if string s1 is lexically less than string s2; otherwise returns false.

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This function overloads operator<().

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator<().

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than s2; otherwise returns false.

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than s2; otherwise returns false. For s1 != 0, this is equivalent to compare(s1, s2) < 0.

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Writes the given string to the specified stream.

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Returns true if string s1 is lexically less than or equal to string s2; otherwise returns false.

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This function overloads operator<=().

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator<=().

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

Returns true if s1 is lexically less than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false. For s1 != 0, this is equivalent to compare(s1, s2) <= 0.

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This function overloads operator==().

Returns true if string s1 is equal to string s2; otherwise returns false.

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This function overloads operator==().

Returns true if s1 is equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator==().

Returns true if s1 is equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator==().

Returns true if s1 is equal to s2; otherwise returns false. Note that no string is equal to s1 being 0.

Equivalent to s1 != 0 && compare(s1, s2) == 0.

Returns true if string s1 is lexically greater than string s2; otherwise returns false.

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This function overloads operator>().

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator>().

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than s2; otherwise returns false.

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than s2; otherwise returns false. Equivalent to compare(s1, s2) > 0.

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Returns true if string s1 is lexically greater than or equal to string s2; otherwise returns false.

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This function overloads operator>=().

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

This function overloads operator>=().

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false.

Returns true if s1 is lexically greater than or equal to s2; otherwise returns false. For s1 != 0, this is equivalent to compare(s1, s2) >= 0.

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Reads a string from the specified stream into the given string.

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The macro generates the data for a QString out of the string literal str at compile time. Creating a QString from it is free in this case, and the generated string data is stored in the read-only segment of the compiled object file.

If you have code that looks like this:

// hasAttribute takes a QString argument
if (node.hasAttribute("http-contents-length")) //...

then a temporary QString will be created to be passed as the hasAttribute function parameter. This can be quite expensive, as it involves a memory allocation and the copy/conversion of the data into QString's internal encoding.

This cost can be avoided by using QStringLiteral instead:

if (node.hasAttribute(QStringLiteral(u"http-contents-length"))) //...

In this case, QString's internal data will be generated at compile time; no conversion or allocation will occur at runtime.

Using QStringLiteral instead of a double quoted plain C++ string literal can significantly speed up creation of QString instances from data known at compile time.

if (attribute.name() == "http-contents-length"_L1) //...

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Disables automatic conversions from 8-bit strings (char *) to Unicode QStrings, as well as from 8-bit char types (char and unsigned char) to QChar.

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Disables automatic conversion from QString to 8-bit strings (char *).

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Disables most automatic conversions from source literals and 8-bit data to unicode QStrings, but allows the use of the QChar(char) and QString(const char (&ch)[N] constructors, and the QString::operator=(const char (&ch)[N]) assignment operator. This gives most of the type-safety benefits of QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII but does not require user code to wrap character and string literals with QLatin1Char, QLatin1StringView or similar.

Using this macro together with source strings outside the 7-bit range, non-literals, or literals with embedded NUL characters is undefined.

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qsizetype QString::count() const▲

[static] QString QString::fromUcs4(const uint *str, qsizetype size = -1)▲

[static] QString QString::fromUtf16(const ushort *str, qsizetype size = -1)▲

[since 6.2] QString operator""_qs(const char16_t *str, size_t size)▲

auto str = u"hello"_qs;