A.5.5 Environment Variables

Environment variables can be queried by using the function getenv(). The data type of the value returned is String, e.g.,

home = getenv("HOME");
  //       -> "/home/user9"
path = getenv("HOME") + "/work/defaults.ipd";
  //       -> "/home/user9/work/defaults.ipd"

Robert Klima 2003-02-06