[Interest] Detecting subdirectories in QDir
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Jul 11 20:05:40 CEST 2018
On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 07:59:28 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 07:44:46 PDT Oleg Yadrov wrote:
> > qDebug() << a.absolutePath().startsWith(b.absolutePath());
> >
> > qDebug() << a.absolutePath().startsWith(c.absolutePath());
>
> Except that this has a bug (which we had in Qt too): these two directories
> are considered to be parent-child, when they're not
>
> C:\One\TwoAndTwenty
> C:\One\Two
>
> And since we're talking about Windows, you also need to use case-insensitive
> comparison.
Because of these gotchas, it's probably worth having a QDir::isParentOf()
function.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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