Is there any easy way to get the following work? I mean is there any helper class in Qt which prepares the string for qDebug?
QString s = "value";
qDebug("abc" + s + "def");
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You can use the following:
qDebug().nospace() << "abc" << qPrintable(s) << "def";
The nospace() is to avoid printing out spaces after every argument (which is default for qDebug()).
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Daniël Sonck
It's recommended to use qUtf8Printable over qPrintable according to the docs, because qDebug() (and friends) expect UTF-8 which may not always be what toLocal8Bits() (which is what qPrintable calls) returns
No really easy way I am aware of. You can do:
QByteArray s = "value";
qDebug("abc" + s + "def");
or
QString s = "value";
qDebug("abc" + s.toLatin1() + "def");
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Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica
That's unsafe and unreliable.
s can be arbitrary, and often comes from external untrusted data, but qDebug(foo, ...) expects foo to be a valid format string. The approach in the answer is known as format string injection. A NO-NO.According to Qt Core 5.6 documentation you should use qUtf8Printable() from <QtGlobal> header to print QString with qDebug.
You should do as follows:
QString s = "some text";
qDebug("%s", qUtf8Printable(s));
or shorter:
QString s = "some text";
qDebug(qUtf8Printable(s));
See:
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kimbaudi
this should really be the new accepted answer. I would definitely prefer to use
qUtf8Printable and qPrintable over .toLatin1().constData() and C++ << operator.Option 1: Use qDebug's default mode of a C-string format and variable argument list (like printf):
qDebug("abc%sdef", s.toLatin1().constData());
Option 2: Use the C++ version with overloaded << operator:
#include <QtDebug>
qDebug().nospace() << "abc" << qPrintable(s) << "def";
Reference: https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5-snapshot/qtglobal.html#qDebug
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Just rewrite your code like this:
QString s = "value";
qDebug() << "abc" << s << "def";
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Greenflow
That's not the same. Your code returns 'abc "value" def'. His code 'abcvaluedef'. Different use case.
I know this question is a bit old, but it appears nearly on top when searching for it in the web. One can overload the operator for qDebug (more specific for QDebug) to make it accept std::strings like this:
inline QDebug operator<<(QDebug dbg, const std::string& str)
{
dbg.nospace() << QString::fromStdString(str);
return dbg.space();
}
This thing is for years in all of my projects, I nearly forget it is still not there by default.
After that, usage of << for qDebug() is a lot more usable imho. You can even mix QString and std::string. Some additional(but not really intended) feature is, that you sometimes can throw in integers or other types that allow implicit conversion to std::string .
