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The QStringList class provides a list of strings. More...
All the functions in this class are reentrant when Qt is built with thread support.
#include <qstringlist.h>
Inherits QValueList<QString>.
It is used to store and manipulate strings that logically belong together. Essentially QStringList is a QValueList of QString objects. Unlike QStrList, which stores pointers to characters, QStringList holds real QString objects. It is the class of choice whenever you work with Unicode strings. QStringList is part of the Qt Template Library.
Like QString itself, QStringList objects are implicitly shared. Passing them around as value-parameters is both fast and safe.
Strings can be added to a list using append(), operator+=() or operator<<(), e.g.
QStringList fonts;
fonts.append( "Times" );
fonts += "Courier";
fonts += "Courier New";
fonts << "Helvetica [Cronyx]" << "Helvetica [Adobe]";
String lists have an iterator, QStringList::Iterator(), e.g.
for ( QStringList::Iterator it = fonts.begin(); it != fonts.end(); ++it ) {
cout << *it << ":";
}
cout << endl;
// Output:
// Times:Courier:Courier New:Helvetica [Cronyx]:Helvetica [Adobe]:
Many Qt functions return const string lists; to iterate over these you should make a copy and iterate over the copy.
You can concatenate all the strings in a string list into a single string (with an optional separator) using join(), e.g.
QString allFonts = fonts.join( ", " );
cout << allFonts << endl;
// Output:
// Times, Courier, Courier New, Helvetica [Cronyx], Helvetica [Adobe]
You can sort the list with sort(), and extract a new list which contains only those strings which contain a particular substring (or match a particular regular expression) using the grep() functions, e.g.
fonts.sort();
cout << fonts.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Courier, Courier New, Helvetica [Adobe], Helvetica [Cronyx], Times
QStringList helveticas = fonts.grep( "Helvetica" );
cout << helveticas.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Helvetica [Adobe], Helvetica [Cronyx]
Existing strings can be split into string lists with character, string or regular expression separators, e.g.
QString s = "Red\tGreen\tBlue";
QStringList colors = QStringList::split( "\t", s );
cout << colors.join( ", " ) << endl;
// Output:
// Red, Green, Blue
See also Implicitly and Explicitly Shared Classes, Text Related Classes, and Non-GUI Classes.
Creates an empty string list.
Creates a copy of the list l. This function is very fast because QStringList is implicitly shared. In most situations this acts like a deep copy, for example, if this list or the original one or some other list referencing the same shared data is modified, the modifying list first makes a copy, i.e. copy-on-write. In a threaded environment you may require a real deep copy .
Constructs a new string list that is a copy of l.
Constructs a string list consisting of the single string i. Longer lists are easily created as follows:
QStringList items;
items << "Buy" << "Sell" << "Update" << "Value";
Constructs a string list consisting of the single latin-1 string i.
If cs is TRUE, the grep is done case-sensitively; otherwise case is ignored.
QStringList list;
list << "Bill Gates" << "Joe Blow" << "Bill Clinton";
list = list.grep( "Bill" );
// list == ["Bill Gates", "Bill Clinton"]
See also QString::find().
Returns a list of all the strings that match the regular expression rx.
See also QString::find().
If cs is TRUE, the search is case sensitive; otherwise the search is case insensitive.
Example:
QStringList list;
list << "alpha" << "beta" << "gamma" << "epsilon";
list.gres( "a", "o" );
// list == ["olpho", "beto", "gommo", "epsilon"]
See also QString::replace().
Replaces every occurrence of the regexp rx in the string with after. Returns a reference to the string-list.
Example:
QStringList list;
list << "alpha" << "beta" << "gamma" << "epsilon";
list.gres( QRegExp("^a"), "o" );
// list == ["olpha", "beta", "gamma", "epsilon"]
For regexps containing capturing parentheses, occurrences of \1, \2, ..., in after are replaced with rx.cap(1), cap(2), ...
Example:
QStringList list;
list << "Bill Clinton" << "Gates, Bill";
list.gres( QRegExp("^(.*), (.*)$"), "\\2 \\1" );
// list == ["Bill Clinton", "Bill Gates"]
See also QString::replace().
See also split().
Sorting is very fast. It uses the Qt Template Library's efficient HeapSort implementation that has a time complexity of O(n*log n).
If you want to sort your strings in an arbitrary order consider using a QMap. For example you could use a QMap<QString,QString> to create a case-insensitive ordering (e.g. mapping the lowercase text to the text), or a QMap<int,QString> to sort the strings by some integer index, etc.
Example: themes/themes.cpp.
If allowEmptyEntries is TRUE, an empty string is inserted in the list wherever the separator matches twice without intervening text.
For example, if you split the string "a,,b,c" on commas, split() returns the three-item list "a", "b", "c" if allowEmptyEntries is FALSE (the default), and the four-item list "a", "", "b", "c" if allowEmptyEntries is TRUE.
If sep does not match anywhere in str, split() returns a list consisting of the single string str.
See also join() and QString::section().
Examples: chart/element.cpp, dirview/dirview.cpp, and network/httpd/httpd.cpp.
This version of the function uses a QString as separator, rather than a regular expression.
If sep is an empty string, the return value is a list of one-character strings: split( QString( "" ), "four" ) returns the four-item list, "f", "o", "u", "r".
If allowEmptyEntries is TRUE, an empty string is inserted in the list wherever the separator matches twice without intervening text.
See also join() and QString::section().
This version of the function uses a QChar as separator, rather than a regular expression.
See also join() and QString::section().
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