Cross-platform way of constructing an FS path with Qt

c++ qt filesystems portability
dpq picture dpq · Jul 7, 2010 · Viewed 18.2k times · Source

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Qt equivalent of PathAppend?

Short story: does Qt 4 have an analog of Python's os.path.join?

Long story: I need to add a relative path to the application directory, QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() in the Right Way (TM), so that the code doesn't depend on the file system directory separator character.

Is merely joining QStrings and using "/" as the separator a good solution?

Answer

Adam W picture Adam W · Jul 7, 2010

You can either use "/" directly or use QDir::separator(). But in general use a QDir for this (which translates "/" to the platform specific path separator for you).

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