<![CDATA[Extracting information from file path]]>Hi,

Is there a function in QFile that return the path of the file?

for example for "c:/external/xml/file.txt" I want to extract only "c:/external/xml".

thanks in advance

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/122489/extracting-information-from-file-pathRSS for NodeFri, 28 Aug 2026 13:38:34 GMTFri, 08 Jan 2021 11:11:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Extracting information from file path on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:17:06 GMT]]>Use QFileInfo or QDir. For example:

QFile someFile;
QFileInfo info(someFile.fileName());
QString xmlDir = info.absolutePath();
// xmlDir == "c:/external/xml".
]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/636616https://forum.qt.io/post/636616Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:17:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Extracting information from file path on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:42:37 GMT]]>You're welcome. Happy coding :-)

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/636623https://forum.qt.io/post/636623Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:42:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Extracting information from file path on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:31:20 GMT]]>@sierdzio thank you so much

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/636619https://forum.qt.io/post/636619Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:31:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Extracting information from file path on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:17:06 GMT]]>Use QFileInfo or QDir. For example:

QFile someFile;
QFileInfo info(someFile.fileName());
QString xmlDir = info.absolutePath();
// xmlDir == "c:/external/xml".
]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/636616https://forum.qt.io/post/636616Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:17:06 GMT