How to get %APPDATA% path in C (windows 7)

Question

I need to get the path of %APPDATA% in my c program, to save a file in %APPDATA%\myprogram\ How can I do that ?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '16 at 18:10

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You should be able to get that information through getenv, here is an example.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main ()
{
    char * app_data;
    app_data= getenv ("APPDATA");

    if (app_data!=NULL)
        printf ("The appdata path is: %s",app_data);

    return 0;
}

answered Jan 31 '16 at 18:10

DominicEU

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That answers the OPs question (and will work almost all of the time) but is **not** the right way to do this. The OP should instead use SHGetKnownFolderPath. – Harry Johnston Jan 31 '16 at 22:19
Can you give an example of using SHGetKnownFolderPath in C (because All I can find on that is in C++) – Red Star Feb 01 '16 at 19:44

How to get %APPDATA% path in C (windows 7)

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