Merge pull request #97 from Burnett01/feat/std-env-for-environment-variables

feat: New std library "env" for accessing the process environment

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

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+//> cflags: -Ofast
+
+import "std/env.zc"
+
+fn main() -> int {
+    // ----
+    // get: Retrieves the env-var as borrowed string (char *) (no alloc)
+    // ---
+    // @Example usage: On Linux (and some variants) PATH is already defined.
+    // ---
+    var path = Env::get("PATH");
+
+    if (path.is_some()) {
+        println "PATH is: {path.unwrap()}";
+    } else {
+        println "PATH is not set";
+    }
+
+    // ----
+    // set:     Sets an env-var variable
+    // get_dup: Retrieves the env-var as caller-owned String() (heap alloc)
+    // ---
+    // @Example usage: In your terminal type "export HELLO=world" or use Env::set()
+    // ---
+    var res = Env::set("HELLO", "world");
+    //=> check res against EnvRes::OK()
+
+    var hello = Env::get_dup("HELLO");
+
+    if (hello.is_some()) {
+        var hello_str = hello.unwrap();
+        defer hello_str.free();
+
+        println "HELLO is: {hello_str.c_str()}";
+    } else {
+        println "HELLO is not set";
+    }
+
+    // ----
+    // unset: Unsets an existing env-var
+    // ---
+    Env::unset("HELLO");
+
+    var hello_now2 = Env::get("HELLO");
+
+    if (hello_now2.is_none()) {
+        println "HELLO is now unset";
+    }
+}