ENVIRON$ Function
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 Action

 Returns an environment string from the DOS or OS-2 environment-string table.


 Syntax 1

  ENVIRON$ ( environmentstring$)

 Syntax 2

  ENVIRON$ ( n%)


 Remarks

 The  ENVIRON$ function uses the following arguments.

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 Argument                                Description
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  environmentstring$                     A string constant or variable that
                                         contains the name of an
                                         environment variable. The name of
                                         the environment variable must be
                                         uppercase. For example, ENVIRON$
                                         ("PATH") returns the path
 Argument                                Description
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                                         ("PATH") returns the path
                                         environment variable; ENVIRON$
                                         ("path") returns a null string.

  n%                                     a numeric expression that
                                         indicates that the  nth string
                                         from the environment string table
                                         should be returned.



 If you specify an environment-string name, but it cannot be found in the envi

 Otherwise,  ENVIRON$ returns the text following the equal sign in the environ

 If you specify a numeric argument ( n%), the  nth string in the environment-s

 In this case, the string includes all of the text, including  environmentstri

 If the  nth string does not exist,  ENVIRON$ returns a null string. The argum


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