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Id: 7016
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: File-Spec
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Requestors: rrwo [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
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  • 0.87_01
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  Tue Jul 20 01:40:28 2004 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: WISHLIST - homedir() function
It would be nice to have a homedir() function, which on Unix would return '~' but on Windows would return catpath($ENV{HOMEDRIVE},$ENV{HOMEPATH}) etc.
  Mon Jul 26 07:25:39 2004 Guest - Correspondence added
[guest - Tue Jul 20 01:40:28 2004]: Show quoted text
> It would be nice to have a homedir() function, which on Unix would > return '~' but on Windows would return > catpath($ENV{HOMEDRIVE},$ENV{HOMEPATH}) etc.
Speaking as a user of File::Spec, no it wouldn't. Besides, there is http://search.cpan.org/dist/User/User.pm