Qt equivalent of PathAppend?

Question

PathAppend is a useful winapi function that lets you append one path to another while taking care of any trailing backslashes (or lack of them).

Meaning that appendi

Answer 1

There is not that function but QDir::cleanPath() will handle everything you need, you just have to concatenate paths:

QString appendPath(const QString& path1, const QString& path2)
{
    return QDir::cleanPath(path1 + QDir::separator() + path2);
}

I used QDir::separator() instead of raw "/" but it's not mandatory because QT internally translate that separator to the native one (if needed, see Cross-platform way of constructing an FS path with Qt).

Note that (for whom with a .NET background) there is another similar function: Path.Combine(), it behaves somehow similar to PathAppend() but it's different. See Is there a QPath::Combine()? for a QT emulation of its behavior (and for a slightly more detailed outlining of their differences).