how to get the first letter of the string?

[aurora]

hi,
Is there any standard function(or way) to get the first letter of a given string?
I tried splitting the string, but that didnt work..

QStringList lineList=line.split("");   //the "line", i read it before from a file
      std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<lineList.at(0).toStdString()<<endl;

QStringList lineList=line.split("");   //the "line", i read it before from a file
      std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<lineList.at(0).toStdString()<<endl;

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If anybody knows, plz tell me...
Thank u

[fullmetalcoder]

Is there any standard function(or way) to get the first letter of a given string?

QString s("are you a troll?");
std::cout << s.at(0); << std::endl;  // prints 'a'

QString s("are you a troll?");
std::cout << s.at(0); << std::endl;  // prints 'a'

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If however you want the first word, as the comment in your code snippet suggest, you could try this :

QString("read the docs luke").split(QRegExp("\\W+"), QString::SkipEmptyParts).at(0);

QString("read the docs luke").split(QRegExp("\\W+"), QString::SkipEmptyParts).at(0);

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[aurora]

Thanks a lot.
i did like this

std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<line.at(0).toAscii()<<endl;

std::cout<<"the first word of the line :"<<line.at(0).toAscii()<<endl;

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[ChrisW67]

... which is the first character of the line and not the first word.

[aurora]

ya...
first word can get by splitting the line by space , then storing in a list right ?

[Spitfire]

If you're going to use only the first word there's no point in breaking whole string and storing it in a list.

QString str("few words here.");
qDebug() << str.mid( 0, str.indexOf(" ", 0 ) ); // prints 'few'

QString str("few words here.");
qDebug() << str.mid( 0, str.indexOf(" ", 0 ) ); // prints 'few'

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[aurora]

If you're going to use only the first word there's no point in breaking whole string and storing it in a list.

QString str("few words here.");
qDebug() << str.mid( 0, str.indexOf(" ", 0 ) ); // prints 'few'

QString str("few words here.");
qDebug() << str.mid( 0, str.indexOf(" ", 0 ) ); // prints 'few'

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Thank u...
i was not knowing this...