getenv

Purpose

Get the value of an environment variable of the operating system.

Synopsis

function getenv(name:string|text):string

Argument

name	Name of the environment variable

Return value

Value of the environment variable (an empty string if the variable is not defined).

Example

The value of the environment variable PATH is retrieved as follows:

str:= getenv("PATH")

Further information

This procedure is included in the published interface of mmsystem (see Section Published library functions).