Select a substring in QString

[Azadshahr]

I have a string like "//Machine/C://DriveOne/File1". I wanted to select this part "DriveOne/File1" from that string. How can I do that? I have defined these strings a QString.

[JonB]

@Azadshahr
Before anyone answers this, are you sure about the C:// bit? Sure it isn't:

//Machine/C:/DriveOne/File1"

?

[Azadshahr]

Yeah. It is "//Machine/C:/DriveOne/File1" correct. Sorry. However, I wanted to select "DriveOne/File1".

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Simply split the string at "//" maybe?

[JonB]

@Azadshahr
I suspected so :) I asked because now looking for // isn't going to help you.

So you can either split at/index from :/, or use QRegularExpression depending on just what you want to allow for.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@JonB said in Select a substring in QString:

I asked because now looking for // isn't going to help you.

Why not? Simply split, take the last one.

[JonB]

@Christian-Ehrlicher
Have you seen that the OP confirmed the string is:

//Machine/C:/DriveOne/File1

Not as originally posted; there is no longer // in the middle. And he wants back:

DriveOne/File1

Which is why I said split on :/.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@JonB Ah, sorry - but the logic is the same :)