[erlang-questions] windows paths in filename module

[Daniel Goertzen]

If you're just looking for your home dir, try this:


1> init:get_argument(home).
{ok,[["C:\\Users\\goertzen"]]}


Dan.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Tim Watson <watson.timothy@REDACTED>wrote:

> What the heck is this all about???
>
> 40>
> os:getenv("HOMEDRIVE").
>
> "C:"
> 41>
> os:getenv("HOMEPATH").
>
> "\\Users\\602382443"
> 42> filename:join(os:getenv("HOMEDRIVE"),
> os:getenv("HOMEPATH")).
> "/Users/602382443"
> 43> filename:nativename(filename:join(os:getenv("HOMEDRIVE"),
> os:getenv("HOMEPATH"))).
> "\\Users\\602382443"
> 44> filename:nativename("C:/" ++
> os:getenv("HOMEPATH")).
> "c:\\Users\\602382443"
> 45> "C:" ++ os:getenv("HOMEPATH").
> "c:\\Users\\602382443"
> Do I *really* have to do this by hand? I had assumed that the whole point
> of filename:join/2 was that it does the right thing on each platform
> without me having to worry about what the directory separator is meant to
> be?
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
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