_getdrive - Get Current Working Drive

Syntax

#include <direct.h>
int _getdrive(void);

Description

• getdrive gets the drive number for the current working drive.

  An alternative to this function is the DosQueryCurrentDisk call.

Returns

• getdrive returns an integer corresponding to alphabetical position of the letter representing the current working drive. For example, A: is 1, B: is 2, J: is 10, and so on.
Example Code

This example gets and prints the current working drive number.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <direct.h>

int main(void)
{
   printf("Current working drive is %d.\n", _getdrive());
   return 0;

   /****************************************************************************
      The output should be similar to:

      Current working drive is 5.
   ****************************************************************************/
}

Related Information

• chdir
  
• chdrive
  
• getcwd
  
• getdcwd

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