Return of uint QDir::count () const

[BibekKumar]

Suppose i have one folder and inside that another two files are there ..
But when i am using uint QDir::count () const, it gives me 4 instead of 2 . the extra 2 is for "." and ".." .i dont understand what is this "." and ".."

[koahnig]

Did you see the "QDir explanation?":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/QDir.html#navigation-and-directory-operations
On the command prompt "." represents the current (working) directory and ".." the parent directory.

[veeraps]

Guess '.' & '..' way go back to MSDOS days - hope this link might be useful "MSDOS":http://teckies.com/tutor/dos/dos-ch3.html

[BibekKumar]

Suppose the directory structure is as follows a->b,c and A->a then in this case if i apply the above function , then "." represents a since it holds b and c , whereas ".." represents A which holds a . Am i right ????

[koahnig]

[quote author="BibekKumar" date="1340007257"]Suppose the directory structure is as follows a->b,c and A->a then in this case if i apply the above function , then "." represents a since it holds b and c , whereas ".." represents A which holds a . Am i right ????[/quote]

Yes, those are simply some representations. There are some more explanations on how using and handling of those special cases in Qt docs e.g. "relativeFilePath":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qdir.html#relativeFilePath