Re: HOME directory

[Luciano Moreira - ht <lucianomx@hotpop.com>]

Yeah ! You need to read the desired environment variable (like HOME), 
using a API like "|char *getenv(const char */name/);".

After read, you shall concatenate the 2 strings:

char *pHome;
char *pMyDir="mydir/mysubdir";
char sFullPath[_MAX_PATH];

pHome = getenv("HOME");
sprintf(sFullPath, "%s/%s", pHome, pMyDir);

WARNING: "sprintf()" isn't the faster way to build a concatenated 
string. If you'll need to repeat this in a long loop, try another way 
using only a single call to "strcat()".

Luciano
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HIToC escreveu:

>Hello all!
>	I am writing a piece of code that makes files, open directories in my
>HOME directory. All worked well until I changed the name of my HOME dir.
>To make the code portable I tried with use of '~' character:
>
>	const char*	filename = "~/file.txt";
>	ofstream	 my_file(filename, ios::out);
>
>but this solution does not work.
>Have you any suggestion to find the path of the current home directory or
>the current user name?
>
>Thanks for any suggestion.
>  
>