QString, remove labels and content? - c++

Question

message.Text() is a QString.
I want to remove some text.
The text can be:
Normal: "This is a text"
With a label: "<label1>something</label1>This is a text"
First, I find if the text has the label:
!message.Text().contains("<label1>", Qt::CaseInsensitive))
So, if it has, I want to remove the first part, to have a normal text "This is a text".
I tried this:
first=message.Text().indexOf("<label1>");
last=message.Text().lastIndexOf("</label1>");
message.Text().remove(first,last);
But I got Compiler Error C2663.
I also know that the message.Text().remove(QChar('<label1'), Qt::CaseInsensitive); is another way to do it. But in my case, the part between the label is unkwnow.
It can be <label1>something</label1> or <label1>oisdioadj</label> or <label1>7</label1>....
Any idea?
Regards.

Answer 1

Try the following:
#include <iostream>
using std::cout; using std::endl;
#include <QString>
int main()
{
QString message = "<label1>something</label1>This is a test";
const QString labelClose = "</label1>";
const int labelCloseSize = labelClose.size();
cout << "message: " << qPrintable(message) << endl;
const int closePosition = message.lastIndexOf(labelClose);
QString justText = message.remove(0, closePosition + labelCloseSize);
cout << "just text: " << qPrintable(justText) << endl;
}

Answer 2

My advice here: keep things simple in your code, it will help making things simple in your head.
It seems what you want to achieve is more related to strings, than to label.
I suggest you get the text from your label, then work on it independently, then associate it back to your label:
QString text = message.text();
/* Do whatever you need to do here with text */
message.setText(text);
Also, the error you're having is probably due to the fact that you try to modify directly message.text() which is a const reference: obviously you can't modify something that is const.
I believe what you try to achieve can be done using QString::replace(). You'll have to use regular expressions for that, so if you're not familiar with it, it might be difficult.