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Convert Windows UNC path to QUrl for Mac
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To convert a Windows UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) path to a QUrl
that can be used in Qt applications on macOS, you can use the following approach:
cpp#include <QUrl>
QUrl convertUNCPathToUrl(const QString& uncPath) {
QString urlPath = uncPath;
// Replace backslashes with forward slashes
urlPath.replace('\\', '/');
// Prepend "file://" to the UNC path
QString urlString = QString("file://%1").arg(urlPath);
// Create a QUrl from the string
QUrl url(urlString);
return url;
}
Here's an example usage:
cppQString windowsUNCPath = "\\\\server\\share\\file.txt";
QUrl url = convertUNCPathToUrl(windowsUNCPath);
QString urlString = url.toString(); // Get the converted URL as a string
The convertUNCPathToUrl
function replaces the backslashes with forward slashes and prepends "file://" to the UNC path. This converts the Windows UNC path to a valid QUrl
that can be used in Qt applications on macOS.
Note that macOS uses a different file path format than Windows, so you might need to handle path conversion and normalization appropriately if you're working with file paths across different platforms.