Hi,
I have a String variable with the following value: "$(Dev_Home)\logs". Can someone tell me what function can i use to parse this to give me the absolute path that this points to? Thanks.

Assuming $(Dev_Home) is an environment variable, you'd have to write a non-java hack to get at $(Dev_Home) these days. They got rid of System.getenv(). If you were using the users home dir you could use System.getProperty(), like:

import java.io.*;

class tmp {
    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.home") );
    }
}

HTH




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