getenv

Synopsis

Returns the value of the environment variable, str, as a string . If the named environment variable does not exist, it returns the empty string . Unfortunately, there is no way to distinguish between the case where the variable does not exist and the case where it actually has the empty string value "".

Syntax

getenv ( str As String ) As String
Argument Type Description
str String The name of the environment variable of interest.

Example 1

Intent >getenv("windir")
--> "C:\WINDOWS"