The module can be obtained from User.

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NAME

User - API for locating user information regardless of OS

SYNOPSIS

  use User;
  my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new
        (
          -file    => sprintf("%s/%s", User->Home, ".ncfg"),
          -default => 'Default'
        );

DESCRIPTION

This module is allows applications to retrieve per-user characteristics. At present, it contains only one method, Home(), which is used to return a location that can be expected to be a users ``Home'' directory on either Windows or Unix.

While one way of writing this would be to check for operating system and then check the expected location for an operation system of that type, I chose to do the following:

 sub Home {
  return $ENV{HOME}        if $ENV{HOME};
  return $ENV{USERPROFILE} if $ENV{USERPROFILE};
  return  "";
 }

In other words, if $HOME is defined in the user's environment, then that is used. Otherwise $USERPROFILE is used. Otherwise ``'' is returned.

A contribution for Macintosh (or any other number of OS/arch combinations) is greatly solicited.

EXPORT

None by default.

AUTHOR

T.M. Brannon, tbone@cpan.org

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to offer profuse thanks to my fellow perl monk at www.perlmonks.org, the_slycer, who told me where HOME could be found on Windows machines.

perl(1).

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In reply to User.pm: a Perl module for OS-independent per-user configuration by princepawn
in thread Windows convention for per-user configuration files for a Perl application by princepawn

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