QLineedit adding extra \ from text()

[sayan275]

Am entering a string in QLineEdit as SIM VFB ALL.DataProcCycle.EmGenObjectList.aObject[.].Kinematic.fDistX*.
Then am reading the text and creating ini file with qsettings.
code is as below

QSettings* settings = new QSettings(m_taskPath + SignalSettingsData::SIGNALSETTINGS_FILENAME, QSettings::IniFormat);
settings->beginGroup(m_RadarSignalEditorUI->projectNameLbl->text());
for(QLineEdit* lineedit : m_RadarSignalEditorUI->scrollAreaWidgetContents->findChildren<QLineEdit*>())
{
    if(lineedit && !lineedit->text().isEmpty())
     {
          QString objName = lineedit->objectName();
          objName = objName.remove("lineEdit_");
          QString textentered = lineedit->text();
          qInfo()<<__FUNCTION__<<textentered;
//            textemtered = lineedit->text().toUtf8().constData();
//            qInfo()<<__FUNCTION__<<textemtered;
          settings->setValue(objName, textentered);
     }
}
settings->endGroup();
settings->sync();

But double backslashes are being added. one extra \ .
In UI its ok, but in debug statements also \ and in the ini file also.

same in INI file also

Forward slash can't be used. these are signal urls

How to get proper string from the lineedit->text() in the ini file like below

[ChrisW67]

@sayan275 said in QLineedit adding extra \ from text():

qInfo()<<__FUNCTION__<<textentered;

When you use the QDebug functions the output is in the form of a C++ literal with anything that would need to be escaped inside the double-quotes, escaped. In this case the backslashes, but also any embedded double quote etc.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@sayan275 said in QLineedit adding extra \ from text():

How to get proper string from the lineedit->text() in the ini file like below

You won't - the [ and ] must be properly encoded, also ..
You will get the correct value when you read it back in with QSettings.

[ChrisW67]

@sayan275 said in QLineedit adding extra \ from text():

qInfo()<<__FUNCTION__<<textentered;

When you use the QDebug functions the output is in the form of a C++ literal with anything that would need to be escaped inside the double-quotes, escaped. In this case the backslashes, but also any embedded double quote etc.