[Interest] QByteArray vs QString, arg, why is there no arg()?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 18/09/19 13:16, Jason H ha scritto:
> What's the best way to zero-pad a QByteArray?
> What I want is QByteArray("%1").arg(6, 10, 10, '0')

Mostly it has to do with the fact that QByteArray is sitting between two 
worlds; on one side it's just a container of bytes, on the other side it 
has _some_ manipulation functions for ASCII-like strings. "Some" 
because, as you've noticed, stuff like the arg() convenience is missing.

If you really need a QByteArray you can work around this by e.g. using a 
printf-like function, what you're looking for is the "%010d" formatting.

Pseudocode:

int n = 123;
const char *format = "The number is %010d";
auto size = qsnprintf(nullptr, 0, format, n);

QByteArray result(size, Qt::uninitialized);
qsnprintf(result.data(), result.size(), format, n);


HTH,
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