Problem with QString .arg()

[ChrisN]

Can anyone tell me the error within the following lines:

QString dT;
dT.clear();
dT.append("Force = %1 +/- %2\n").arg(F,0,'f',0).arg(tolF,0,'f',0);

returns

Force = 10 +/- 2

properly on stdout. But when writing to formatted file using

QFile file( repfname );
QTextStream ts( &file );
const char *foo = dT.toStdString().c_str();
ts << foo << endl;
file.close();

file contains

Force = %1 +/- %2

[wysota]

QString::arg() returns a modified copy of the string, it doesn't modify the string in place so you have to assign the result to some variable.

[DanH]

Can anyone tell me the error within the following lines:

QString dT;
dT.clear();
dT.append("Force = %1 +/- %2\n").arg(F,0,'f',0).arg(tolF,0,'f',0);

returns

Force = 10 +/- 2

properly on stdout.
I suspect you are wrong there. What you tested was probably slightly different code. I believe this would work:

dT.append("Force = %1 +/- %2\n".arg(F,0,'f',0).arg(tolF,0,'f',0)); or perhaps

dT.append(QString("Force = %1 +/- %2\n").arg(F,0,'f',0).arg(tolF,0,'f',0));
(I have trouble predicting when Qt is going to allow auto-conversion of C strings to QStrings.)

[ChrisW67]

I have trouble predicting when Qt is going to allow auto-conversion of C strings to QStrings. This a function of C++ and nothing to do with Qt. If the compiler cannot make sense of a parameter as written it will try a single type conversion, using a non-explicit conversion constructor for the allowable classes in that parameter position, and try to make sense of the result. It will never do more than one type conversion and will fail if there is more than one possible option.

Your first example fails because the constant C string has no associated class and hence no arg() method. It is not a parameter in its own right so no attempt at conversion is made.

I am absolutely certain that I have explained this poorly and missed nuances.

[ChrisN]

Thank you all!

dT.append(QString("Force = %1 +/- %2\n").arg(F,0,'f',0).arg(tolF,0,'f',0));

does it.