Re: Tipical newbie question
1. Please use descriptive subjects - a "Tipical newbie question" does not describe any problem
2. It will be faster to query the list directly.
Re: Tipical newbie question
If you're only accessing the string two or three times, I wouldn't worry about it. But even if you do it a lot, QStringList is a QList, which is implemented internally as an array. There if very little overhead to calling mystringlist.at[n], for example. Sometimes I will use a reference to a QList item, for readability purposes, but it isn't necessary for efficiency.