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The QStringList class provides a list of strings. More...
#include <qstringlist.h>
Inherits QValueList<QString>.
It is used to store and manipulate strings that logically belong together. Basically QStringList is a QValueList of QString objects. As opposed to QStrList, which stores pointers to characters, QStringList deals with real QString objects. It is the class of choice whenever you work with Unicode strings. QStringList is part of the Qt Template Library.
Like QString itself, QStringList objects are implicitly shared. Passing them around as value-parameters is both fast and safe.
Strings can be added to a list using append(), operator+=() or operator<<(), e.g.
QStringList fonts;
fonts.append( "Times" );
fonts += "Courier";
fonts += "Courier New";
fonts << "Helvetica [Cronyx]" << "Helvetica [Adobe]";
String lists have an iterator, QStringList::Iterator(), e.g.
for ( QStringList::Iterator it = fonts.begin(); it != fonts.end(); ++it ) {
cout << *it << ":";
}
cout << endl;
// Output:
// Times:Courier:Courier New:Helvetica [Cronyx]:Helvetica [Adobe]:
Many Qt functions return const string lists; to iterate over these you should make a copy and iterate over the copy.
You can concatenate all the strings in a string list into a single string (with an optional separator) using join(), e.g.
QString allFonts = fonts.join( ", " );
cout << allFonts << endl;
// Output:
// Times, Courier, Courier New, Helvetica [Cronyx], Helvetica [Adobe]
You can sort the list with sort(), and extract a new list which contains only those strings which contain a particular substring (or match a particular regular expression) using the grep() functions, e.g.
fonts.sort();
cout << fonts.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Courier, Courier New, Helvetica [Adobe], Helvetica [Cronyx], Times
QStringList helveticas = fonts.grep( "Helvetica" );
cout << helveticas.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Helvetica [Adobe], Helvetica [Cronyx]
Existing strings can be split into string lists with character, string or regular expression separators, e.g.
QString s = "Red\tGreen\tBlue";
QStringList colors = QStringList::split( "\t", s );
cout << colors.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Red, Green, Blue
See also Implicitly and Explicitly Shared Classes, Text Related Classes and Non-GUI Classes.
Creates a copy of the list l. This function is very fast because QStringList is implicitly shared. However, for the programmer this is the same as a deep copy. If this list or the original one or some other list referencing the same shared data is modified, the modifying list first makes a copy, i.e. copy-on-write.
Constructs a new string list that is a copy of l.
Constructs a string list consisting of the single string i. Longer lists are easily created as follows:
QStringList items;
items << "Buy" << "Sell" << "Update" << "Value";
If cs is TRUE, the grep is done case-sensitively; otherwise case is ignored.
Returns a list of all the strings that contain a substring that matches the regular expression expr.
See also split().
Sorting is very fast. It uses the Qt Template Library's efficient HeapSort implementation that has a time complexity of O(n*log n).
If you want to sort your strings in an arbitrary order consider using a QMap. For example you could use a QMap<QString,QString> to create a case-insensitive ordering (e.g. mapping the lowercase text to the text), or a QMap<int,QString> to sort the strings by some integer index, etc.
Example: themes/themes.cpp.
If allowEmptyEntries is TRUE, an empty string is inserted in the list wherever the separator matches twice without intervening text.
For example, if you split the string "a,,b,c" on commas, split() returns the three-item list "a", "b", "c" if allowEmptyEntries is FALSE (the default), and the four-item list "a", "", "b", "c" if allowEmptyEntries is TRUE.
If sep does not match anywhere in str, split() returns a list consisting of the single string str.
See also join() and QString::section().
Examples: dirview/dirview.cpp and network/httpd/httpd.cpp.
This version of the function uses a QString as separator, rather than a regular expression.
If sep is an empty string, the return value is a list of one-character strings: split( QString( "" ), "mfc" ) returns the three-item list, "m", "f", "c".
If allowEmptyEntries is TRUE, an empty string is inserted in the list wherever the separator matches twice without intervening text.
See also join() and QString::section().
This version of the function uses a QChar as separator, rather than a regular expression.
See also join() and QString::section().
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