How to produce Capital hexadecimal digits with QString::arg() ? [QT]

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Petruza picture Petruza · Jun 19, 2010 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I'm trying to create a QString which is a hexadecimal number with its letter digits in Capitals instead of small caps, how can it be done? 

QString( " %1" ).arg( 15, 1, 16 )

yields f and I'd like F

Answer

dantje picture dantje · Jun 19, 2010

By converting the string to upper case:

QString( " %1" ).arg( 15, 1, 16 ).toUpper();

This returns an uppercase string. The method used to be called upper() in qt3.

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