QT: QTableView read cell content - qt

I'm writing a small program with QT creator (QT 5.2.1) under Windows 7 (32 bit) and I'm having problems reading the informations stored in a TableView. My application has 3 elements, a TableView to store text data, a TextBrowser to show info and a buttom.
I modified the TableView properties: when the user selects with the mouse a cell, the full row is selected and multiple row selection is not allowed.
The user select a row and when the buttom is pressed, I would like to read the content of a specific TableView cell and show it in a TextBrowser. In particular, I would like to know the row index of the selected row and read the content of the cell with that row index and a specific column index (example 2).
The pseudo-code is this:
void my_program::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
ui->textBrowser->append("button pressed");
QItemSelectionModel *select = ui->tableView->selectionModel();
int index_row = select->selectedRows();
int index_column = 2;
char cell_data[30] = ??[index_row][index_column]
ui->textBrowser->append(cell_data);
}
The main problem is that select->selectedRows() returns a QModelIndex that is a collection of indexs and I do not know how to convert it to int (since multiple selection are not allowed, it should have only one element).
I would be glad if someone can suggest me a way to proceed.
Thanks
Francesco
edit:
Hi Bogdan, thanks a lot!! I succeed to read the cell content by using
ui->textBrowser->append(ui->tableView->model()->data(ui->tableView->model()->index(2,5)).toString());
this give me the content of the cell in position 2,5.
not sure if this is the best way or not but it works !!.
Can you be a bit more precise about how to iterate the QModeIndexList ? thanks :)

selectedRows() returns QModelIndexList, thus you need to iterate over it and call QModelIndex::data() to get stored data.

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