Re: GetEnvironmentVariable

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From: Joanne
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:13

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"Ed Mulroy" wrote:
>The function prototype calls for an AnsiString by value and the code passes 
>it a char* literal.
>
>See if this works:
>
>  Name = "USETNAME";
>  Name = GetEnvironmentVariable(Name);

Still no joy.  I notice that the linker error references 
GetEnvironmentVariableA  whereas my code calls 
GetEnvironmentVariable  - I don't understand this?

I can use the Win API version of the function, so it is no 
hassle, but interesting why it doesn't work!

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