QString to LPCSTR
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Good day Qt,
I'm working in a non-Unicode project on VS2012 and I need to convert a QString to LPCSTR. I have tried the following code:
QString name = ...omitted for clarity.....; LPCSTR labelName = (LPCSTR)name.toLocal8Bit().constData();
and I'm getting artifact.
Can you help to figure out what's wrong with this code?
Thanks in advance!
Massi
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As a guess I assume that 'name.toLocal8Bit()' produces a temporary copy of the original QString data. Once this goes out of scope the pointer is no longer valid. LPCSTR is the same as 'const char*'.
If you copied the data to a local buffer (using memcpy for example) it should work. Maybe drop the variable completely (?). The best idea would be a separate QByteArray to hold a more perminant copy of the data:
QByteArray temp_data; temp_data = name.toLocal8bit(); LPCSTR labelName = temp_data.constData(); // casting shouldn't be needed