Re: [Boost-users] Getting Environment Variables

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-20 12:48:41

Angus Leeming wrote:

>Sebastian Redl wrote:
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>>Another interesting addition would be replacing of referenced
>>environment variables within the variable - does getenv() do
>>that?
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>Sorry, I don't follow.
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>Angus
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Especially in Windows, many environment variables contain a sequence 
%something%, which tells the shell to substitute this sequence with the 
environment variable something. An example is the PATH variable, which 
contains, I believe, %WINDIR% as an early entry. I wonder whether the 
Win32 implementation of getenv() does this, or if it should be done by 
an external function.

Sebastian Redl