getenv - Environment variable

Syntax

Description

getenv 'name' searches the underlying operating system's environment list for a string of the form name=value, where name is the input string. If found, the MATLAB software returns the string value. If the specified name cannot be found, an empty matrix is returned.

N = getenv('name') returns value to the variable N.

Examples

os = getenv('OS')

os =
Windows_NT

See Also

computer | path | pwd | setenv | ver

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