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function   UTIL_GetEnv    

Library: omutil - miscellaneous system utilities
Include: omutil.xin
Return type: String
Returns:       

The value of an environment variable.


Declaration

  define external stream function UTIL_GetEnv
       (  value stream VarName  )


Purpose

This function is used to retrieve the value of an environment variable. If the environment variable is not set, UTIL_GetEnv returns a zero-length string.

Example:

  ; display the current path

  output UTIL_GetEnv( "path" ) || "%n"

        Other Library Functions
   UTIL_Env
   UTIL_ExpRand
   UTIL_GetEnv
   UTIL_GetMilliSecondTimer
   UTIL_GetProcessId
   UTIL_IsVersionCompatible
   UTIL_LibraryVersion
   UTIL_Rand
   UTIL_Sleep
   UTIL_Srand
   UTIL_UniformRand
 
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