Why does select(QTextCursor::BlockUnderCursor) include an extra junk character?

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Windows 7 SP1
MSVS 2010
Qt 4.8.4

I am using QTextCursor to grab each block's text. I use select(QTextCursor::BlockUnderCursor) to grab the text and then go to the next block with movePosition(QTextCursor::NextBlock). But when I again select(QTextCursor::BlockUnderCursor) I get an extra junk character in the QString and the anchor has moved to the end of the previous block.

Using this for text.txt:

@A
B@

This code's comments walks through the issue and asks the questions:

@#include <QTGui>
int main(int argc, char argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QMainWindow window = new QMainWindow;
QTextEdit* editor = new QTextEdit(window);
QTextDocument* document = new QTextDocument(window);

editor->setDocument(document);
QFile file&#40;"test.txt"&#41;;
if (file.open(QFile::ReadOnly | QFile::Text))
    editor->setPlainText(file.readAll());

QTextBlock block = document->begin();
QTextCursor* cursor = new QTextCursor(document);
int pos = cursor->position();           // = 0
int anchor = cursor->anchor();          // = 0

cursor->select(QTextCursor::BlockUnderCursor);
pos = cursor->position();               // = 1
anchor = cursor->anchor();              // = 0

QString text = cursor->selectedText();  // = "A"
int size = text.size();                 // = 1

cursor->movePosition(QTextCursor::NextBlock);
pos = cursor->position();               // = 2
anchor = cursor->anchor();              // = 2

cursor->select(QTextCursor::BlockUnderCursor);
pos = cursor->position();               // = 3
anchor = cursor->anchor();              // = 1 Why not 2?

text = cursor->selectedText();          // "B" in debugger
                                        // but text.at(0) = junk & test.at(1) = "B"
size = text.size();                     // = 2 Why? Why not 1?

return app.exec();

}@

tzander

Thats the end-of-block character you find.

There are also end-of-table-cell characters.

Therefore

I see. That makes sense now. Thanks!