Read a file and distinguish CR/LF and LF char
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 14:21 last edited by
Hello everybody
Happy new year all of you!
I come here because I need some help about file reading. Actually, I have a program that read a file through QTextStream. But now, I have to distinguish CR/LF and LF new line character. In fact, I want to know if each line in the file ended with CR/LF or with LF, knowing that the file have some line that finished by CR/LF and some other that finish by LF.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 15:14 last edited by
Use QTextStream::readLine and you will get every line which ends with CR/LF or LF (you will get it without them!)
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 15:40 last edited by
But it is what I want: to get the "\n" or the "\r\n" into the read string. And QTextStream do not return the "end of line" character.
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 15:54 last edited by
QTextStream::readAll does contain all the whitespaces. If you want their position you might use QString::indexOf
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 16:09 last edited by
The problem is I'm working with huge files (sometime more than 200 MB of text). So I can't use readAll() because it load all the file content in memory.
No, I'd like to read the file line by line. Maybe I have to subclass QFile and create my own reading method using readLineData()... But I wanted to be sure there is not an already existing solution for this problem ;)
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 18:53 last edited by
And why don't use readLine and just append LF or CR/LF?
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wrote on 8 Jan 2014, 19:38 last edited by
Because it is exactly what I want to know: In the file, there is some line ended by CR/LF and some other ended by LF (which I internaly do not treat like a real end of line, but as a new line in the data itself). Well it is a bit tricky.
But to summarize, the file containts some lines with CR/LF and some lines with LF. And I want to know when I'm reading the file if the line I'm reading is ended by CR/LF or by LF.
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Hi,
If you use a text stream, or if you use QIODevice::Text when you open the file, Qt will convert all CR/LF to LF.
To preserve them, you will need to read your data as raw bytes, and then search for "\r\n" manually.
See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qfile.html#reading-files-directly
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