Re: HOME directory

["Richard Nairn" <Richard@nairnconsulting.ca>]

You can use the environment variables to determine what the home directory  
is. Look at the manpage for getenv(3) and environ(5)

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:27:59 -0600, HIToC <hitoc_mail@yahoo.it> wrote:

> 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.



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