Reading Files Directly
The following example reads a text file line by line:
QFile file("in.txt");
if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text))
return;
while (!file.atEnd()) {
QByteArray line = file.readLine();
process_line(line);
}
The QIODevice::Text flag passed to open() tells Qt to convert Windows-style line terminators ("\r\n") into C++-style terminators ("\n"). By default, QFile assumes binary, i.e. it doesn't perform any conversion on the bytes stored in the file.
Using Streams to Read Files
The next example uses QTextStream to read a text file line by line:
QFile file("in.txt");
if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text))
return;
QTextStream in(&file);
while (!in.atEnd()) {
QString line = in.readLine();
process_line(line);
}
QTextStream takes care of converting the 8-bit data stored on disk into a 16-bit Unicode QString. By default, it assumes that the user system's local 8-bit encoding is used (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for most of Europe; see QTextCodec::codecForLocale() for details). This can be changed using setCodec().
To write text, we can use operator<<(), which is overloaded to take a QTextStream on the left and various data types (including QString) on the right:
QFile file("out.txt");
if (!file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly | QIODevice::Text))
return;
QTextStream out(&file);
out << "The magic number is: " << << "\n";
