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  2. QTBUG-99301

As a user of QStringBuilder, I would like to be able to express repetition and conditionals in expressions

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      For conditionals, we currently work around the lack of this feature by using the ternary operator nested within the QStringBuilder expression:

      QStringView foo = ~~~;
      QString s = str1 % ~~~~ % (shouldIncludeFoo ? foo : u"") % ~~~~ ;
      

      But this requires the LHS and RHS of the ternary to have a reasonably-identical type. I cannot add a QL1S in one and a QStringView in the other, let alone QStringBuilder<T,S> for differing T, S.

      I'm not sure whether one could just overload the ternary operator for QStringBuilder<>, but that would probably mean that at least one of the legs has to be a QStringBuilder expression itself, so maybe something more explicit is needed, like QStringBuilder::Conditional(cond, lhs, rhs)?

      For repetition we don't have any work-around, except storing a subexpression in QString and then using QString::repeated().

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