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KAr Class

A class for reading ar archives. More...

• Header: #include <KAr>
• CMake: find_package(KF6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Archive)
target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE KF6::Archive)
• Inherits: KArchive

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#Public Functions

• KAr(QIODevice *dev)
• KAr(const QString &filename)
• ~KAr()

#Detailed Description

KAr is a class for reading archives in ar format. Writing is not supported. Reading archives that contain files bigger than INT_MAX - 32 bytes is not supported.

#Member Function Documentation

#[explicit] KAr::KAr(QIODevice *dev)

Creates an instance that operates on the given device.

The device can be compressed (KCompressionDevice) or not (QFile, etc.).

dev the device to read from

#[explicit] KAr::KAr(const QString &filename)

Creates an instance that operates on the given filename.

filename is a local path (e.g. "/home/holger/myfile.ar")

#[override virtual noexcept] KAr::~KAr()

If the ar file is still opened, then it will be closed automatically by the destructor.