Qt: Expand ~ to home-directory

Question

Does Qt have any platform-independent functionality to accept paths like \"~/myfile\"?

I know about wordexp, but it would be nice with a platform-independent wrapper

Answer 1

I think that the absolutePath (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdir.html#absolutePath) is the way to do it.

Answer 2

You could probably just replace the tilde with the result of QDir::homePath()? Reference here.