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Which String Class in Qt Should I Use?
Qt Widgets and more
31 August 2022
Qt comes with lots of classes relating to strings these days, including QString, QStringView, QStringLiteral etc. It comes with so many that I lost track, so maybe it is time to call my good friend Peppe. In this episode we will discuss what you need to know to get it right at least 95% of the cases, without knowing it all.
Links:
* Detailed documentation on QStringBuilder: https://www.qt.io/blog/2011/06/13/string-concatenation-with-qstringbuilder
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Use QString
2:03 So why do we have all these classes?
2:57 Overview of the classes
3:27 QStringLiteral
5:00 QString::operator==() has improved a lot
8:13 QByteArray
9:50 QLatin1Stringm QLatin1StringView
12:29 Views - QStringRef (Qt5), QStringView
16:18 Lifetime of views
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