Name

getenv — get the value of an environment variable

Calling Sequence

env=getenv(str [, rep] )

Parameters

str

character string specifying environment variable name rep : an optional character string. When this optional value is used, the function getenv returns the value rep when the environment variable str is not found.

env

character string which contain the environment variable value

Description

Return the value of an environment variable if it exists.

Examples


 getenv('SCI')
 getenv('FOO','foo')