Locate user temp directory

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brittonsm@gmail.com - 21 Dec 2007 16:09 GMT

I'm new to java, but in VBA I can do this strWordPathTemp =
Environ("TEMP") which gives me the users default temp directory - How
do you do this in java?

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Lew - 21 Dec 2007 16:19 GMT

> I'm new to java [sic], but in VBA I can do this strWordPathTemp =
> Environ("TEMP") which gives me the users default temp directory - How
> do you do this in java [sic]?

It's "Java", not "java".

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv(java.lang.String)>

There is a link there to
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv()>
on the same page.

For things like the user's default temp directory, though, you probably want
system properties rather than environment variables, for reasons explained in
the above links.

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperties()>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperty(java.lan
g.String)>

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperty(java.lan
g.String,%20java.lang.String)>

Your question would be answered by a call to
System.getProperty( "java.io.tmpdir" );

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Roedy Green - 24 Dec 2007 09:03 GMT

>I'm new to java, but in VBA I can do this strWordPathTemp =
>Environ("TEMP") which gives me the users default temp directory - How
>do you do this in java?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/set.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/environment.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/properties.html#SECURITY
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/applet/wassup.html

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