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Creating/writing into a new file in Qt

Asked 2011-02-06T21:17:53.803
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I am trying to write into a file and if the file doesn't exist create it. I have searched on the internet and nothing worked for me.

My code looks currently like this:

QString filename="Data.txt";
QFile file( filename );
if ( file.open(QIODevice::ReadWrite) )
{
    QTextStream stream( &file );
    stream << "something" << endl;
}

If I create a text file called Data in the directory, it remains empty. If I don't create anything it doesn't create the file either. I don't know what to do with this, this isn't the first way in which I tried to create/write into a file and none of the ways worked.

c++ qt file-io qfile
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That is weird, everything looks fine, are you sure it does not work for you? Because this main surely works for me, so I would look somewhere else for the source of your problem.

#include <QFile>
#include <QTextStream>


int main()
{
    QString filename = "Data.txt";
    QFile file(filename);
    if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadWrite)) {
        QTextStream stream(&file);
        stream << "something" << endl;
    }
}

The code you provided is also almost the same as the one provided in detailed description of QTextStream so I am pretty sure, that the problem is elsewhere :)

Also note, that the file is not called Data but Data.txt and should be created/located in the directory from which the program was run (not necessarily the one where the executable is located).

answered 2011-02-06T21:30:28.317

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