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Rasmus Faber
Rasmus Faber

Reputation: 49647

Qt: Expand ~ to home-directory

Does Qt have any platform-independent functionality to accept paths like "~/myfile"?

I know about wordexp, but it would be nice with a platform-independent wrapper.

Edit:

Thank you all for the responses. "~/myfile" was just an example. What I am looking for is functionality to handle file-paths as you would be able to write on the command-line. So on Linux, it should accept "~/myfile", "~otheruser/hisfile", "$VAR/file" etc. On Windows, it should accept "%HOMEDIR%\myfile" etc.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 7456

Answers (2)

ChristopheD
ChristopheD

Reputation: 116207

You could probably just replace the tilde with the result of QDir::homePath()? Reference here.

Upvotes: 13

e8johan
e8johan

Reputation: 2939

I think that the absolutePath (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdir.html#absolutePath) is the way to do it.

Upvotes: -3

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