Function: flocal

Syntax

flocal (<file>)

Type

string

Returns

The full path name of a file in local OS convention with library and environment names expanded. On Windows systems, any / characters are changed to \.

Parameters

• <file>
  The name of the file to be queried. The file may or may not exist.

Examples

In the following, if the environment variable MXAPP has the value '/usr/apps', fn will be set to the value '/usr/apps/names.txt'.

string s= '$MXAPP/names.txt'
string fn = flocal(s)

See Also