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author | Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernandez@qt.io> | 2017-03-05 17:28:56 +0100 |
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committer | Jesus Fernandez <Jesus.Fernandez@qt.io> | 2017-04-08 12:02:50 +0000 |
commit | 944bf6867f8360e7ec79f542f65b4ea556ecc4e5 (patch) | |
tree | ff2e447c381e92396ece4a7b47d6da52f13029a8 /src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp | |
parent | 4a6cb89f2944b5d8ee3e50fd3a2085eba9189680 (diff) |
Add more information about how to get a QString from qgetenv
Change-Id: Ic712654c8d4735a59bf02cf6a7e1c689ca9a886c
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp')
-rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp index 54df8b1f61..6b3cb502e5 100644 --- a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp @@ -3220,12 +3220,16 @@ static QBasicMutex environmentMutex; Returns the value of the environment variable with name \a varName. To get the variable string, use QByteArray::constData(). + To convert the data to a QString use QString::fromLocal8Bit(). \note qgetenv() was introduced because getenv() from the standard C library was deprecated in VC2005 (and later versions). qgetenv() uses the new replacement function in VC, and calls the standard C library's implementation on all other platforms. + \warning Don't use qgetenv on Windows if the content may contain + non-US-ASCII characters, like file paths. + \sa qputenv(), qEnvironmentVariableIsSet(), qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty() */ QByteArray qgetenv(const char *varName) |