PathUnExpandEnvStringsA function (shlwapi.h)
Replaces certain folder names in a fully qualified path with their associated environment string.
Syntax
BOOL PathUnExpandEnvStringsA(
[in] LPCSTR pszPath,
[out] LPSTR pszBuf,
[in] UINT cchBuf
);
Parameters
[in] pszPath
Type: LPCTSTR
A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the path to be unexpanded.
[out] pszBuf
Type: LPTSTR
A pointer to a buffer that, when this method returns successfully, receives the unexpanded string. The size of this buffer must be set to MAX_PATH to ensure that it is large enough to hold the returned string.
[in] cchBuf
Type: UINT
The size, in characters, in the pszBuf buffer.
Return value
Type: BOOL
Returns TRUE if successful; otherwise, FALSE.
Remarks
The following folder paths are replaced by their equivalent environment string.
Folder | Environment String |
---|---|
The All Users profile folder | %ALLUSERSPROFILE% |
The current user's application data folder (Windows Vista and later only). | %APPDATA% |
The system name | %COMPUTERNAME% |
The Program Files folder | %ProgramFiles% |
The system root folder | %SystemRoot% |
The system drive letter | %SystemDrive% |
The current user's profile folder | %USERPROFILE% |
Note
The shlwapi.h header defines PathUnExpandEnvStrings as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.
Requirements
Requirement | Value |
---|---|
Minimum supported client | Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP [desktop apps only] |
Minimum supported server | Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only] |
Target Platform | Windows |
Header | shlwapi.h |
Library | Shlwapi.lib |
DLL | Shlwapi.dll (version 5.0 or later) |