Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:35:04 05/03/04
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On May 03, 2004 at 12:32:59, ArturoDiDonna wrote:
>Dear all,
>sorry for being OT, but I recently came across the following problem.
>I need to pass the content of the Unix environment variable 'pwd' to a 'C'
>variable and I was wondering if there was any way to perform this job. Ideally,
>I would like to be this code platform-independent code, if possible.
>
>I was wondering if there was any kind soul willing to help me.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Arturo
IIRC, "getenv" does the job
Uli
GETENV(3) Linux Programmerâs Manual GETENV(3)
NAME
getenv â get an environment variable
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
char *getenv(const char *name);
DESCRIPTION
The getenv() function searches the environment list for a string that
matches the string pointed to by name. The strings are of the form
name = value.
RETURN VALUE
The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in the environâ
ment, or NULL if there is no match.
CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
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