[Qt-interest] QFile SetFileName on windows 7

[Gopalakrishna Bhat]

Hi All,

Thanks for the replies. It worked out for me.

With regards,
Gopalakrishna

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Bo Thorsen <bo at fioniasoftware.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Den 04-04-2011 12:22, Gopalakrishna Bhat skrev:
>
>  I'm trying to open a file and read it in Windows 7. I get a weird
>> problem, whenever I set the filename the backslashes are converted into
>> forward slashes. What is the reason for this? Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> The code snippet is below:
>>     QFile file;
>>     file.setFileName("C:\\development\\htmldict\\wb1913_.html");
>>     if(file.exists(file.fileName()))  {
>>         file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
>>         qDebug()<<file.readAll();
>>     }
>>     else
>>         qDebug()<<"no  such  file"<<file.fileName();
>>
>> The output I get is
>>
>> no such file "C:/development/htmldict/wb1913_.html"
>>
>
> This is because Qt internally uses / as directory separator. You're not
> doing anything wrong.
>
> If you want to see your path as it really is, use
> QDir::toNativeSeparators().
>
> Bo Thorsen,
> Fionia Software.
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