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    giesbert
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    This is a community forum, so no garantee that nokia engeneers will read it.

    What do you need these methods for? I think you are talking about language bindings to which language?

    QFile (in C++ :-) ) already has a

    • read()
    • readLine()
    • atEnd()
    • readAll()

    Why do you need additional functions?

    Nokia Certified Qt Specialist.
    Programming Is Like Sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

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      spode
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      yes, i know. these methods makes sure to have an explicit paramether...and i need a method with no paramether...like Java!

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        DenisKormalev
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        spode, sorry, but what parameter are you talking about? readAll() doesn't have any parameters :)

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          giesbert
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          And for what a method without parameter, just returning QString? This implies, QFile can only read text files, but it can access any type of file? That's why you get a byte array = data stream, not a QString.

          Otherwise QFile must handle different types of text files (ASCII, Latin1, utf-8, utf-16, different encodings like greek, german, ...).

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          Programming Is Like Sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

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            andre
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            Actually, I did write some code that you can use to just read a string from the file system with a single method call. It even caches the reads. Very convenient, if you want to keep longer texts, HTML snippets or CSS in a resource file or elsewhere, and you just want to set their contents with a single line of code.

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              goetz
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              [quote author="spode" date="1306783216"]could i suggest you, nokia's engeneers, to realize a method "read()" and a "canRead()". they are similar than "next()" and "hasNext()" of Java! =) they are for QFile (QFile::read() : QString and QFile::canRead() : QString)

              what do you think about this, reader?[/quote]

              Java class File does neither have next() nor hasNext() methods.

              What are you referring to?

              http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                spode
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                i think it is wrong!

                see here http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html

                @
                File fileinp ( "prova.txt" );
                if ( fileinp.canRead() )
                {
                System.out.println( fileinp.read() );
                }
                @

                it is easier to read from a file, verbatim! you need not to explain the max characters read() method can read and writing the source code is easier, as for me!
                for Gerolf: i can not reply because i have not so much experience with Java...

                [EDIT: code formatting, please wrap in @-tags, Volker]

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                  goetz
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                  [quote author="spode" date="1306946648"]i think it is wrong!

                  see here http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html

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                  File fileinp ( "prova.txt" );
                  if ( fileinp.canRead() )
                  {
                  System.out.println( fileinp.read() );
                  }
                  @
                  [/quote]

                  If java had a read() method on class File (but it does not have it!), then the equivalent code in Qt would be.

                  @
                  QFile fileinp("prova.txt");
                  QFileInfo fi(fileinp);
                  if(fi.isReadable()) {
                  qDebug() << fileinp.readAll();
                  }
                  @

                  [quote author="spode" date="1306946648"]
                  it is easier to read from a file, verbatim! you need not to explain the max characters read() method can read and writing the source code is easier, as for me!
                  for Gerolf: i can not reply because i have not so much experience with Java...
                  [/quote]

                  Sorry, I do not understand that sentence.

                  You still lack the explanation of "missing" next() or hasNext() methods.

                  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                    spode
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                    0k, if you just want all the text. but if you need only a word?

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                      goetz
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                      Then write a parser or split the string (you will find the relevant methods with a quick search in Assinstant or Creator's help). It depends on your definition of word boundaries.

                      http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                        spode
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                        yes, i know. i say that is more difficult than Java's methos...

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                          goetz
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                          You still lack explanations or examples of what your talking about. Up to now it just reads like silly trolling....

                          http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                            DenisKormalev
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                            Looks like what is needed for OP is QTextStream::operator>>(). It reads one word from QIODevice (where words are separeted with QChar::isSpace() chars).

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