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Chapter 21
Environment Variables
This chapter describes the NSPR API for looking up the values of environment
variables.
Functions
PR_GetEnv
Return the value of the environment variable
Syntax
#include <prenv.h>
char* PR_GetEnv(const char *name);
Parameters
The function has the following parameters:
| name |
A pointer to a null terminated string containing the name
of the environment variable |
Returns
If the environment variable is defined, returns a pointer to it's value.
Otherwise NULL is returned.
Caution: The returned pointer should be treated as a const char*.
Description
PR_GetEnv searches the environment list for a string of the form
"name=value" and returns a pointer to the value, if a match is found. If
the environment variable is not defined, NULL is returned.
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