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-rw-r--r--src/corelib/doc/snippets/qstring/main.cpp1
-rw-r--r--src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp32
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/qstring/main.cpp b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/qstring/main.cpp
index c839c10b84..2ea75526df 100644
--- a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/qstring/main.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/qstring/main.cpp
@@ -733,7 +733,6 @@ void Widget::sizeFunction()
int n = str.size(); // n == 5
str.data()[0]; // returns 'W'
str.data()[4]; // returns 'd'
- str.data()[5]; // returns '\0'
//! [58]
}
diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp b/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
index af3d026682..c0a03e0011 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp
@@ -5138,14 +5138,9 @@ QString& QString::fill(QChar ch, int size)
Returns the number of characters in this string.
- The last character in the string is at position size() - 1. In
- addition, QString ensures that the character at position size()
- is always '\\0', so that you can use the return value of data()
- and constData() as arguments to functions that expect
- '\\0'-terminated strings.
+ The last character in the string is at position size() - 1.
Example:
-
\snippet qstring/main.cpp 58
\sa isEmpty(), resize()
@@ -5674,10 +5669,13 @@ int QString::localeAwareCompare_helper(const QChar *data1, int length1,
/*!
\fn const QChar *QString::unicode() const
- Returns a '\\0'-terminated Unicode representation of the string.
+ Returns a Unicode representation of the string.
The result remains valid until the string is modified.
- \sa utf16()
+ \note The returned string may not be '\\0'-terminated.
+ Use size() to determine the length of the array.
+
+ \sa utf16(), fromRawData()
*/
/*!
@@ -8077,7 +8075,10 @@ bool QString::isRightToLeft() const
Returns a pointer to the data stored in the QString. The pointer
can be used to access and modify the characters that compose the
- string. For convenience, the data is '\\0'-terminated.
+ string.
+
+ Unlike constData() and unicode(), the returned data is always
+ '\\0'-terminated.
Example:
@@ -8093,18 +8094,25 @@ bool QString::isRightToLeft() const
/*! \fn const QChar *QString::data() const
\overload
+
+ \note The returned string may not be '\\0'-terminated.
+ Use size() to determine the length of the array.
+
+ \sa fromRawData()
*/
/*! \fn const QChar *QString::constData() const
Returns a pointer to the data stored in the QString. The pointer
- can be used to access the characters that compose the string. For
- convenience, the data is '\\0'-terminated.
+ can be used to access the characters that compose the string.
Note that the pointer remains valid only as long as the string is
not modified.
- \sa data(), operator[]()
+ \note The returned string may not be '\\0'-terminated.
+ Use size() to determine the length of the array.
+
+ \sa data(), operator[](), fromRawData()
*/
/*! \fn void QString::push_front(const QString &other)