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I don't like reinventing the wheel and this seemed like a pretty basic function. The same concept as these two questions except specifically for QStrings? QRegExp has an escape function so I'm wondering if I've just overlooked the QString version or whether there's a good reason there isn't one.

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Samuel Harmer
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I doubt there would be such a function built into Qt, as it's really unlikely to be a frequently-required thing to do with QStrings. (Or at least, I can't think of any plausible usage that it would be worth the Qt maintainers supporting.)

QRegExp::escape() is a bit different, as it's doing a specific task of escaping characters that are known to have special meaning in regular expressions. Qt provides a method for this because it is a normal and common thing to need to do with regular expressions.

So, I think your best bet is going to be to take one of the example snippets of code that you linked to in the question, and roll your own function.

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