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  • U UbiMiles

    @Christian-Ehrlicher the text is recieved from QML from a FolderDialog
    then converted from URL to QString

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    @UbiMiles Did you actually read my answer on why it does not print something?

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    • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

      Please don't pictures but text - so we can try out the code directly.

      You forgot to flush the output buffer -> see std::endl or std::flush

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      @Christian-Ehrlicher as for flushing I am not intending to output the string but using it with an external SDK, the bug caused a weird exception in the disassembler
      and I found out it is because the string is empty

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        @Christian-Ehrlicher as for flushing I am not intending to output the string but using it with an external SDK, the bug caused a weird exception in the disassembler
        and I found out it is because the string is empty

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        @UbiMiles The string is not empty. Please provide a minimal, compilable example of your real code. Your code above does not output anything because (third time) you forgot to flush the output buffer.

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        • U UbiMiles

          @Christian-Ehrlicher as for flushing I am not intending to output the string but using it with an external SDK, the bug caused a weird exception in the disassembler
          and I found out it is because the string is empty

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          @UbiMiles oh
          I do see now , my bad.. pardons

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          • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

            @UbiMiles The string is not empty. Please provide a minimal, compilable example of your real code. Your code above does not output anything because (third time) you forgot to flush the output buffer.

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            @Christian-Ehrlicher
            when passing the standard library string to a function it causes a runtime error in the disassembler
            do you have any idea what may be causing such issue

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            • U UbiMiles

              @Christian-Ehrlicher
              when passing the standard library string to a function it causes a runtime error in the disassembler
              do you have any idea what may be causing such issue

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              @UbiMiles said in returning empty std::string when converting a QString with a path to an std::string using toStdString:

              when passing the standard library string to a function it causes a runtime error in the disassembler

              Maybe you mix debug and release dlls which you're not allowed to do so on Windows.
              No more ideas without any code / minimal compilable example.

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              • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                @UbiMiles said in returning empty std::string when converting a QString with a path to an std::string using toStdString:

                when passing the standard library string to a function it causes a runtime error in the disassembler

                Maybe you mix debug and release dlls which you're not allowed to do so on Windows.
                No more ideas without any code / minimal compilable example.

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                @Christian-Ehrlicher
                I think the porblem has to do with me appending the date and time to my string

                    sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                
                
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                • U UbiMiles

                  @Christian-Ehrlicher
                  I think the porblem has to do with me appending the date and time to my string

                      sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                  
                  
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                  @UbiMiles yes
                  testing without appending the date and time works just fine without any crashes

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                  • U UbiMiles

                    @Christian-Ehrlicher
                    I think the porblem has to do with me appending the date and time to my string

                        sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                    
                    
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                    @UbiMiles said in returning empty std::string when converting a QString with a path to an std::string using toStdString:

                    @Christian-Ehrlicher
                    I think the porblem has to do with me appending the date and time to my string

                        sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                    
                    

                    on windows, a colon (:)is not a valid character for filenames and/or a path


                    annotation, : can and in fact is part of every windows (full) path, but its reserved for the drive letter association


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                    • J.HilkJ J.Hilk

                      @UbiMiles said in returning empty std::string when converting a QString with a path to an std::string using toStdString:

                      @Christian-Ehrlicher
                      I think the porblem has to do with me appending the date and time to my string

                          sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                      
                      

                      on windows, a colon (:)is not a valid character for filenames and/or a path


                      annotation, : can and in fact is part of every windows (full) path, but its reserved for the drive letter association

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                      @J-Hilk said in returning empty std::string when converting a QString with a path to an std::string using toStdString:

                      sampleName.append(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm:ss"));
                      

                      thanks a lot, much appreciated sir.

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                      • U UbiMiles

                        input :
                        2d923a1f-00dc-4b77-8538-d4c338f3030a-image.png

                        output:
                        4d91feb7-645e-40ba-8432-5411f9852ec4-image.png

                        is it because of the backslash?
                        how can I possibly fix this behavior

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