I think whispering in mouser' ear is a nicer solution

Me too.   w h i s p e r    w  h  i  s  p  e  r



Edit. If LBC could handle and the situation where an item defined by %ProgramFiles% on a 64bit OS is not found in C:\Program Files (x86), %ProgramFiles% could then be parsed as it is currently.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I'm trying to create one set of config files that will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit OS's

Assuming that on 32bit OS all apps in C:\Program files and that on 64bit OS apps are either in C:\Program files or C:\Program files (x86).

If I replace C:\Program files with %\ProgramFiles% in an existing config, all x86 applications are available on both 32 and 64 bit OS's. But an application ie. Notepad+ which has an x86 version on the 32 bit OS and a x64 version on 64 bit OS is not available on the 64 bit OS.

Another way to describe it would be that %ProgramFiles% expands to C:\Program files on the 32 bit OS and C:\Program files (x86) on the 64 bit OS, but not also C:\Program files on the 64 bit OS. 

A truth table of my atempt to unify LBC configs on both 32 bit and 64 bit OS using the %ProgramFiles% replacment

32bit OS      x86 app     OK       
32bit OS      x64 app      -
64bit OS      x86 app     OK
64bit OS      x64 app     fails

I hope I haven't laboured the point but several posts can to different conclutions about my objective.

George