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Get the current username

Get the username of the currently logged on user.

Option Explicit

Private Const UNKNOWN = "(Value Unknown Because System Call Failed)"
Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

Public Function GetCurrentUserName() As String

  Dim l As Long
  Dim sUser As String

  sUser = Space$(255)
  l = GetUserName(sUser, 255)
  ' strip null terminator

  If l <> 0 Then
    GetCurrentUserName = Left(sUser, InStr(sUser, Chr(0)) - 1)
  Else
    Err.Raise Err.LastDllError, , "A system call returned an error code of " & Err.LastDllError
  End If

End Function

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Posted: 2007-05-22
By: FortyPoundHead
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