"exist" command usage question

Hello everyone. I wanted to know if it is possible to use a the "exist" command to check if a directory exists, nomater the username of the user eg. check=exist('C:\Users\<user_name>\---\---\---\somedit','dir') Is there a way to somehow get the username or something?

[Jan]

What is "---"?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can retrieve the username by using getenv('USERNAME') in MS Windows

I would suggest that you probably want to use getenv('HOMEPATH') as the base location for the directory to store files.

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Answer 2

[Andreas Goser]

I'd say once you know the file exits on the path, the WHICH command will also be able to find the file - and return the path. Only thing left is to do a reasonable string operation to isolate the username part.