This works.
use Win32;
print Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%");
James Howarth
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-----Original Message-----
From: guess_who344 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: %windir%
Is there any way to get the value of the %windir% command into a variable?
For example, I'd like to populate $win_inst with the location of where
windows is installed.
system "%windir% >$data"; # doesn't work
Thanks,
Ron
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