How to catch the NT envirentment variable 1

[6656]

Hi all,

Do you know that how to catch an envirentment variable on MS-Windows since SYSGET() doesn't wok for Windows?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[klaz2002]

Mike,
Could you tell me which Windows variable are you looking for? If its the user id you could use the &sysuser macro var.
klaz

 

[fsnyder]

Mike,

Try to use a pipe filename statement with the dos 'SET' command. You will return info about system variables to a data step and then can parse out the ones you want :

filename env pipe 'set';

data _null_;
infile env;
length vars $ 500;
infile env lrecl=2000;
input vars &;
varname = scan(vars,1,'=');
value = scan(vars,2,'=');
put vars varname value;
run;

Fred

 

[6656]

THANKS YOU ALL,

FRED'S CODE WORKS FINE FOR THE USER'S CUSTOMIZED ENV VARIABLE.

MIKE