How to translate paths with environment variables (Eg. %temp%)

Question

I am searching for a winapi function to expand paths with environment variables. I have tried GetFullPathName but the result is weird: "%appdata%\something" becomes "C:\<path to directory of exe>\%appdata%\something".

How to do this correctly?

Answer 1

Try ExpandEnvironmentStrings.

Answer 2

Cause I needed it with C#/.NET: Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables Method

I hope it'll help somebody.