Get the Username

[Pandemic]

Is there any way to use Batch file variables in AutoIt? For instance, %systemroot% or %username%? Currently, I'm getting the username by running a batch file that echoes %username% to a text file, then reading it in, then deleting the file.

This is obviously inefficient... is there a way to get the username directly through AutoIt, or use batch variables directly?

-Pandemic

EDIT: Probably should've explored before I posted, but oh well. Found the "@UserName" variable, so I'm good .

Edited December 18, 2009 by Pandemic

[Jos]

EDIT: Probably should've explored before I posted, but oh well. Found the "@UserName" variable, so I'm good .

Don't be this nice to yourself... Of course you should have done that first!

[Mobius]

Having AutoIt3 parse command shell compliant evars is not as inefficient as you might expect, If you really need them add this to your script.

Opt("ExpandEnvStrings",1); Enable
MsgBox(64,@SCRIPTNAME,"Hello %USERNAME% Evars in strings are enabled")
Opt("ExpandEnvStrings",0); Disable
MsgBox(64,%COMPUTERNAME%,"Hello "& @USERNAME &" Evars in strings are Disabled. (see title)")

Basically if a macro exists use the macro instead of the environment variable, but if you want user defined evars, no reason why you can't have them if you prefer.