Get user home directory

get the user's home directory platform independent

Description

GETUSERDIR returns the user home directory using the registry on windows systems and using Java on non windows systems as a string

COLLABORATION:
As I am not familiar with non windows operating systems please give me information about incompatibilities - I rely on JAVA in this function

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)

[Javier Lopez]

Nice!

[andy a]

Why not just this

if ispc; userdir= getenv('USERPROFILE');
else; userdir= getenv('HOME');
end

[Martin O'Reilly]

Nice bit of code - just what I was looking for.

@ andy a: getenv('USERPROFILE') gets the root of your Windows profile. By default your "My Documents" folder will be directly under this root. Fowever, getenv('USERPROFILE') will not get your "My Documents" folder if you have changed it from the default (e.g. to another partition to separate data and operating system files).

[Eric]