Os.getenv

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: os

Description

Returns the value of the process environment variable varname, or nil if the variable is not defined.

(any) = os.getenv(varname)

Parameters

varname: (string) name of the variable

Return values

Returns (any) value of the variable

Examples

os.getenv("HOME") -- user folder on Mac & Linux
os.getenv("HOMEPATH") -- user folder on Windows
os.getenv("HOMEDRIVE") -- user drive on Windows

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