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Section: Operating System Functions
The getenv
function returns the value for an environment variable from the underlying OS. The syntax for the getenv
function is
y = getenv(environment_variable)
where environment_variable
is the name of the environment variable to return. The return is a string.
Here is an example of using the getenv
function to get the value for the HOME
variable
--> getenv('HOME') ans = /home/sbasu