qtextedit selectedtext() return control characters

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I have a function which returns selected text only from qtextedit. I need to get plain text, but this function returns text with some control characters.

For example: function textEdit->textCursor().selectedText() return:

"select?  timestamp,?  strftime('%d.%m.%Y', Datetime(timestamp, 'unixepoch', 'localtime')) as date,?  strftime('%H:%M:%S', Datetime(timestamp, 'unixepoch', 'localtime')) as time,?  author,?  from_dispname,?  dialog_partner,?  body_xml?from?  Messages?where?  timestamp >= 1501504199?  -- timestamp >= 1502345001?order by?  timestamp asc"

function textEdit->toPlainText() return:

"select\n  timestamp,\n  strftime('%d.%m.%Y', Datetime(timestamp, 'unixepoch', 'localtime')) as date,\n  strftime('%H:%M:%S', Datetime(timestamp, 'unixepoch', 'localtime')) as time,\n  author,\n  from_dispname,\n  dialog_partner,\n  body_xml\nfrom\n  Messages\nwhere\n  timestamp >= 1501504199\n  -- timestamp >= 1502345001\norder by\n  timestamp asc"

In first example are ?(question mark) without enters and I am not able to replace them.

What am I doing wrong?

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1 Answers

To wrap the comments up as an answer:

As the documentation of QTextCursor::selectedText states:

Note: If the selection obtained from an editor spans a line break, the text will contain a Unicode U+2029 paragraph separator character instead of a newline \n character. Use QString::replace() to replace these characters with newlines.

Which shows up as a ? when shown in debug output. One can either use QString::replace as stated in the documentation, or use QTextCursor::selection instead (by using selection().toPlainText() to get the text from the selection)

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