[Gambas-user] User environment interrogation

Fabien Bodard gambas.fr at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 08:47:21 CET 2019


It is here :-)

http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/application/env

Le ven. 8 févr. 2019 à 07:51, Bruce <adamnt42 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On 8/2/19 4:59 pm, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> > On 2/8/19 12:12 AM, Bruce wrote:
> >> (Quicky?) Is there an easy way to get a particular environment setting
> >> for the current user.
> >> IOW I want to get the result of (say)
> >>    echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> >>
> >> tia
> >> Bruce
> >
> > I have to think that I must be missing something, because this should be
> > quite easy.
> >
> > Public Sub Main()
> >
> >    Dim sOutput As String
> >
> >    Shell "echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH" To sOutput
> >    Print sOutput
> >
> > End
> >
> >
> > ___
> > Lee
> >
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>
> Missing something? I think not, but my usual over simplification :-)
>
> Trying again.
>
> Does there exist in the gambas native libraries a way to interrogate the
> current user's environment for any arbitrary setting?
>
> I was looking for an answer to see if I was missing something in my
> understanding of the User, System, Application etc classes that may save
> me the effort of doing exactly what you said.
>
> What I am really trying to do is something like this:
>
>    If User.Env["ZZ_ABSOLUTE_RUBBISH"] then
>      DoSomething_ProperLike
>    Else
>      Message.Error("blah,blah, blah. Die you Moron!")
>      Return 300KV_through_keyboard
>    Endif
>
> I guess I'll have to write it myself.
>
> cheers
> B
>
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