kDebug formatting

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sun Aug 5 23:24:51 BST 2007


David Jarvie wrote:
>Is there an easy way to omit spaces between parameters as output by
> kDebug?

nospace()

> There are a number of kDebug and kWarning statements where I 
> quote things like file names, and the quotes really shouldn't include
> extra spaces inside them. Another case where spaces are not wanted is
> when outputting a string between delimiters. Especially if the string
> already starts or ends with spaces, having kDebug add its own
> inter-parameter spaces is confusing. A simple example is:
>
>kWarning() << "Error reading file '" << fileName << "'" << endl;
>
>Generally, the I like the new kDebug, since spaces will typically be
> wanted between parameters. But there are cases where this is not
> wanted. qDebug has an option to suppress spaces between parameters - is
> there an equivalent for kDebug? If not, I think there should be.

kDebug and qDebug are now the same. What is valid for one is valid for the 
other and vice-versa.

Anyways, the line above should now be:
	kWarning() << "Error reading file" << fileName;
since fileName is a QString, QDebug will automatically add the quotes.

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