Re: [Gretl-devel] getenv(): about environment strings

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote: > >> This works in Linux, producing the two first letters of the LANG >> environment variable: >> >> string lang=substr(getenv("LANG"),1,2) >> >> But I don't know how to do it in Windows (I see Windows 7 has not >> this variable in the environment) > > There's now a $lang accessor in CVS and snapshots. I've done a little > testing on Windows but not much. The returned string should be of the > form "es_ES", "zh_TW", "en_US" and so on (ISO 639-1 language + '_' + > ISO 3166-1 two-letter country). Hmm. <bash> LANGUAGE=it_IT gretl & </bash> <console> Terminale di gretl: scrivere 'help' per la lista dei comandi ? a = $lang Generata la stringa a ? print a en_GB </console> ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel