Re: Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64)

From	ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64)
Date	2012-06-25 10:43 -0500
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:10:18 +0200, Helge <w4h@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

>Hallo NG!
>I need to open PathA = "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\paper\pp.csv"
>           Open PathA for Output as #FiNu
>But it does not work that easy. Any ideas? Thanks!
>Vy 73! Helge

The "%" delimiters are for use with shells. At the command line, in
batch files, Windows Shells (Explorer) etc.

In VB use the Environ() function without the delimiters.
Dim sRoot As String : sRoot = Environ("userprofile")
PathA = PathA = sRoot & "\Documents\paper\pp.csv"

-ralph

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Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64) Helge <w4h@nurfuerspam.de> - 2012-06-25 17:10 +0200
  Re: Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64) ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-25 10:43 -0500
    Re: Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64) "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-06-25 18:17 +0000
      Re: Environment variables in Visual Basic (Vb5E, W7/64) Helge <w4h@nurfuerspam.de> - 2012-06-26 09:59 +0200

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