<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>You can't use expressions in summary strings.</div><div>We have thought about this several times and have a couple ideas on how it could be done but for now it's not there.</div><div><br></div><div>If you need to resort to an expression, you can use a python formatter instead and then you are free to call as many expressions as you like.</div><div><br></div><div>However, this will cause a slowdown - running expressions is not free - and if you ever need to make sure nothing is altering your program state, running expressions might not be a safe bet.</div><div>Is there really no other way to get to those UTF8 bytes?</div><div><br>Sent from the iPhone of<div><i>Enrico Granata</i> <egranata@🍎.com></div></div><div><br>On Apr 28, 2014, at 7:33 AM, Eran Ifrah <<a href="mailto:eran.ifrah@gmail.com">eran.ifrah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
I am trying to view the content of a QString, in gdb I could simply type from the command line:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<span style="color:rgb(54,53,52);font-size:13px;line-height:16.899999618530273px"><font face="courier new, monospace">(gdb)print mystr.toUtf8().constData()</font></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<span style="color:rgb(54,53,52);font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.899999618530273px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<span style="color:rgb(54,53,52);font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.899999618530273px">and I would get the info, can I do something similar with lldb's data formatters (hint: I am getting parse error)? </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(54,53,52);font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.899999618530273px">for example:</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="line-height:16.899999618530273px;color:rgb(54,53,52);font-family:'courier new',monospace">type summary add QString --summary-string "${var.toUtf8().constData()}"</span><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So my question is: can I use functions when defining 'type summary' or am I limited to variables members only?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks,</div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
Eran Ifrah<br>
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