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Get User Home Folder in Haxe

I'm looking for a way to get the path to the user's home folder that will work on any sys target. The only way I can think of is to use the HOME/UserProfile environment variable, but I can't find a cross-target way to get environment variable values. Is there another way?

Solution

  • You can use Sys.getEnv() to obtain the value of the environment variable, and Sys.systemName() to check which OS you're running on:

    var home = Sys.getEnv(if (Sys.systemName() == "Windows") "UserProfile" else "HOME");