ExpandEnvironmentStrings Not Expanding My Variables
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I have a process under the Run key in the registry. It is trying to access an environment variable that I have defined in a previous session. I'm using ExpandEnvironmentStrings to expand the variable within a path. The environment variable is a user profile variable. When I run my process on the command line it does not expand as well. If I call 'set' I can see the variable.
Some code...
CString strPath = "\\\\server\\%share%"
TCHAR cOutputPath[32000];
DWORD result = ExpandEnvironmentStrings((LPSTR)&strPath, (LPSTR)&cOutputPath, _tcslen(strPath) + 1);
if ( !result )
{
int lastError = GetLastError();
pLog->Log(_T( "Failed to expand environment strings. GetLastError=%d"),1, lastError);
}
When debugging Output path is exactly the same as Path. No error code is returned.
What is goin on?
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