[Qt-interest] Is there any hope for the pos() method when used with a QTextStream?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 8 de September de 2011 17:00:04 Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>   So, is there any hope for me? I already keep a line count so when I need
>   to page backwards, I COULD close and re-open the file and then read
>   forward to the new position that I want, but that seems like using a punch
> card solution in the smartphone age*. Has QTextStream::pos()  been fixed?
> If not, can it be fixed? And if it isn't/can't, has anyone got any better
> ideas for alternatives? (I'd prefer not to keep several tens of thousands
> of lines of text in an array of QStrings in memory, although that would
> work too.)

Forget pos(). Keep the line number and column number instead.

The existence of pos() in QTextStream is a flaw in design. Trying to keep a 
byte count in a buffered stream, after converting from an arbitrary 8-bit codec 
into UTF-16, is close to impossible.

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