In my QT project I am reading values from .ini file using QSettings. If the value contains comma character QSettings is not able to read it. How should I read such values?
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Comma character is treated as list separator by QSettings. INI values with commas are parsed as string lists. You can convert a string list back to original string as follows:
QVariant value = settings.value("key"); QString string; if (value.type() == QVariant::StringList) { string = value.toStringList().join(","); } else { string = value.toString(); } 
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simply create a ini file with qsettings and a comma in configuration string. Characters being control chars for ini-files will be escaped by % percent sign.
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Pavel Strakhov
I think OP is talking about INI files not generated by Qt.
QSettings. Try to useqDebug() << settings.value("key");to see what it loads from your file. If it is a string list, you can convert it to string usingjoin(",").