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<h3 class="section">36.7 Environment Variables</h3>
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— Built-in Function: <b>getenv</b> (<var>var</var>)<var><a name="index-getenv-3302"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the value of the environment variable <var>var</var>. For example,
<pre class="example"> getenv ("PATH")
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<p class="noindent">returns a string containing the value of your path.
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<!-- putenv src/sysdep.cc -->
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— Built-in Function: <b>putenv</b> (<var>var, value</var>)<var><a name="index-putenv-3303"></a></var><br>
— Built-in Function: <b>setenv</b> (<var>var, value</var>)<var><a name="index-setenv-3304"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Set the value of the environment variable <var>var</var> to <var>value</var>.
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