Windows 10 QDir::separator

[SPlatten]

I am building a path, I start off by using QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory to get a chosen path from the operator. On Windows 10 the path returned by this function contains / delimiting the folders.

I then check if the returned path needs a delimiter appending with:

QString strPath(QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(this, "Choose location"));
QChar chSeparator(QDir::separator());
if ( strPath.endsWith(chSeparator) != true ) {
    strPath += chSeparator;
}

I can see in the debugger that chSeprator contains \ not the same delimiter as returned by getExistingDirectory, why is this and am I checking this correctly?

[jsulm]

@SPlatten Qt uses / even on Windows. QDir::separator() returns native separator as explained in documentation (means: on Windows \). You can simply check for both / and \. Keep in mind that you have to escape \ if you want to use it in your paths.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

People should really learn to sue the Search function... this same question was asked exactly three days ago: https://forum.qt.io/topic/128692/

[KroMignon]

@SPlatten Maybe this will not answer directly your question, but to avoid those kind of issues I always use QDir::cleanPath() to replace all \ with / and also removes all redondant separators.

[ollarch]

Not question related, but this line:
@SPlatten said in Windows 10 QDir::separator:

if ( strPath.endsWith(chSeparator) != true )

will be better in this way:

if ( !strPath.endsWith(chSeparator) )