Strange binary file output when using QByteArray.

Hi, all,

I have a problem of QByteArry.
When I take it to store a data, a strange binary file is outputted.
A basic code is like as following.

Code:

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QString fname ="test1.db";
QFile ext_file(fname);
ext_file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
QDataStream out(&ext_file);
static const char mydata[] = { 0x74,0x68,0x65 };
QByteArray data = QByteArray::fromRawData(mydata,sizeof(mydata));
out<<data;

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However, I got a strange extra data on the head of data stream.

Code:

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0000 0003 7468 65

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Why does the output data have 0000 0003 ?
Could you please help me.
Thank you very much.

QDataStream is a serialization mechanism and not a general purpose binary stream. It prepended the length of the byte array to the stream to be able to deserialize it later.

Just to emphasis what wysota wrote: you problem has nothing to do with QByteArray.
Write it directly into the file instead of serializing it as an object.

Cheers,
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Thank you, anda_skoa and wysota.
I will try to use std::fstream or fwrite.

It is enough to use QFile::write.