XploRe Help : getenv

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Group:	Information and Control
See also:	library setenv

Function:		getenv
Description:		getenv reads the content of an environment variables set by the program or by the ini-file.

Usage:	`x = getenv ({envname})`
Input:
	`envname`	name of the environment (see setenv for more details)
Output:
	`x`	text containing the value of the envrironment

Note:

It is possible to set the enviroment variables for xpl4lib, xpl4dll and xpl4data to more than one directory. In this case, pathnames have to be seperated by ":".

Example:

getenv ()

Result:


returns all existing environment variables

Example:

getenv("xpl4home") getenv("outputformat")

Result:


text of xpl4home is printed to the output window
the output format string (default is "% 8.5lg")

Group:	Information and Control
See also:	library setenv

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