Append data on a file using QSetting

LovelyGrace

Is it possible to keep the old data and append the new data everytime the program runs on QSetting;

QString file = QApplication::applicationDirPath() + "/sample.ini";
qDebug() << QApplication::applicationDirPath() << endl;
QSettings settings(file, QSettings::IniFormat);
settings.beginGroup("Sample");
settings.setValue("Username", "John");
settings.setValue("Password", "12345678");
settings.endGroup();

What happens here is it only keeps new data. I tried adding a count on begingroup function but it error.

JonB

@LovelyGrace
Don't understand what you mean. Your code reads in the existing settings. You create/overwrite Sample/Username & Sample/Password. If you mean to instead create Sample2/Username & Sample2/Password etc. then .beginGroup("Sample2"); would do that.

Perhaps you should show what your .ini file looks like before & after your code, what you would like it to end up as, and what you tried?

J.Hilk

@LovelyGrace
I would suggest looking into the documentation of QSettings and the section about arrays.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsettings.html#beginReadArray

Seems like that should cover what you want to do.