How do I get the user's username?

[Algumber]

I wanted to make a little horror game thing, where in one part, it shows the username of the player (the username on his computer), how do I do that?

[MrFariator]

Simplest method I know of is

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os.getenv("USERNAME")    -- gets the currently logged username
os.getenv("USERPROFILE") -- gets the location of the user profile, eq. C:\Users\xyz

However, I'm not sure how cross-platform this is. For other approaches you could call some system functions via FFI.

[pgimeno]

On Linux it's os.getenv("USER"). I guess it's the same on OSX. Can't tell for iOS/Android.

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

os.getenv("USER") and others above return nil for Android. Does it even have a feature like that?

[GVovkiv]

os.getenv("USER") and others above return nil for Android. Does it even have a feature like that?

probably because android doesn't have local accounts system
as i can understand, it's single user os, so no "USER" variable for you

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

I suspect the same for IOS.