How to get the first letter of the string?

[aurora]

hi,
Is there any standard function(or way) to get the first letter of a given string?
I tried splitting the string, but that didnt work..
@ QStringList lineList=line.split(""); //the "line", i read it before from a file
std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<lineList.at(0).toStdString()<<endl;@

If anybody knows, plz tell me...
Thank u

[cincirin]

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((line.constData())[0]).toAscii()
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[tobias.hunger]

Simple answer: line.at(0)

Complex answer: What do you understand a letter to be?

With unicode one QChar can be any one of these:

• something simple as e.g. 'A'.
• fun stuff like 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI' (U+FB03) which would most likely be counted as 3 letters by most people
• only part of one complex glyph (the drawing commonly referred to as "letter"). E.g. you could write 'Ö' (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS, U+00D6) as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O, U+004F followed by COMBINING DIAERESIS, U+0308
• or even just "half a unicode codepoint" when surrogate pairs are in use, which extend the 16bit unicode space that is addressable directly by UTF-16 used in QString by combining 2 UTF-16 characters.

[broadpeak]

operator[] or at()
index number is of course zero

[aurora]

Thanks a lot for all of u...:)
i did like this
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std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<line.at(0).toAscii()<<endl;
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