On 11/06/2020 14.03, Scott Bloom wrote:
If you are working with a path, for use in QDir, QFileInfo, QFile etc etc, and the path string is using a ~, either of the form ~/foo.txt or ~user/foo.txt, Qt seems to be treating it as a relative path of the current user, and prepends “/home/scott” in my case to the path,
Uh... yeah? A path starting with "~/" or "~<user>/" has been "shorthand" for that user's home directory ("~/" → current user) for decades. I'm not sure what you were expecting?
$ cd / $ ls -d ~ /home/matthew
and of course, the canonicalPath returns an empty string because that file path is invalid and doesn’t exist.
Why is it invalid? Did you somehow manage to have your home directory not exist?
What is the Qt way to handle this? It cant be to tell your users not to use ~. Can it?
If your intention is to treat "~/foo" as a relative path, the first component of which is literally "~", then... yeah, don't do that; that isn't the "traditional" interpretation of such a path. If that's what you want, use "./~/foo" instead. (If you just need to suppress tilde expansion, you may be able to check for paths that start with "~" and always add "./" to the beginning of them. Beware, however, that users that expect tilde expansion to work may be confused or annoyed.)
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