Verify directories are the same, string compare is not working

[fcarney]

I have a dialog I am adding drag and drop to. I drag a file into my dialog and it gives me the path:

file:///home/fcarney/Desktop/nospam.txt

However, if I use QUrl and dissect this I get this from path():

///home/fcarney/Desktop/nospam.txt

From another part of my program I have another path:

/home/fcarney/Desktop/nospam.txt

Obviously a string compare will not work here. So is there something in QFile or QFileInfo that lets me check equivalency of paths? I store both paths as QUrls, but I only set the scheme for one of them. Maybe that is where I am going wrong. My check however starts out checking strings. So maybe that part needs to change too.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@fcarney said in Verify directories are the same, string compare is not working:

if I use QUrl and dissect this I get this from path():

You're using the wrong function - it's a local file so you should use toLocalFile() ...

[fcarney]

@Christian-Ehrlicher If it is missing the scheme then it won't return anything.

I ended up doing this to check my wonky paths:

bool FileTransferBroker::pathsEqual(QString source, QString dest)
{
    QFileInfo fsrc(source);
    QFileInfo fdst(dest);

    return fsrc.absoluteFilePath() == fdst.absoluteFilePath();
}

I honestly am unsure how I got the /// path as I cannot get it to repeat this again.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@fcarney said in Verify directories are the same, string compare is not working:

If it is missing the scheme then it won't return anything.

Then you build up your url wrong.

[fcarney]

@Christian-Ehrlicher said in Verify directories are the same, string compare is not working:

Then you build up your url wrong.

I had to go back through and convert all my local paths to file:// at the start and build urls from there. The pathEqual function works so I kept it. So I had a couple of problems here.