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Cross-platform environment variable signature, @ #2

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mottosso opened this issue May 7, 2014 · 0 comments
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Cross-platform environment variable signature, @ #2

mottosso opened this issue May 7, 2014 · 0 comments

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mottosso commented May 7, 2014

On Unix, environment variables are referenced via the $ character. On windows, its %. Which means we can't make use of either one in a cross-platform compatible library.

# Posix
$ echo $ROOTDIR
'/studio'

# Windows
$ echo %ROOTDIR%
'c:\studio'

How about @?

$ dash @ROOTDIR
'c:\studio'
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