[racket] Environment variables in paths

From: Laurent (laurent.orseau at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 17:36:41 EDT 2012

Can't you write
(build-path (getenv "WORKSPACE") ....)
?

Laurent

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Nick Shelley <nickmshelley at gmail.com>wrote:

> I can't seem to find a path function that deals with environment
> variables. Is there some variant of cleanse-path that resolves environment
> variables first?
>
> Concretely, I have an environment variable $WORKSPACE that tells where I'm
> operating from. The result of (getenv "WORKSPACE") is the correct absolute
> path, but (build-path "$WORKSPACE" ...) doesn't resolve the variable, so my
> filesystem commands are failing.
>
> Thanks.
>
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