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CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD ><FONT SIZE="6" >System.Posix.Env</FONT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="right" ><TABLE CLASS="narrow" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Portability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >non-portable (requires POSIX)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Stability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >provisional</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Maintainer</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >libraries@haskell.org</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Description</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >POSIX environment support </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Synopsis</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AgetEnv" >getEnv</A > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > (<A HREF="../base/Data-Maybe.html#t%3AMaybe" >Maybe</A > <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AgetEnvDefault" >getEnvDefault</A > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AgetEnvironmentPrim" >getEnvironmentPrim</A > :: <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > [<A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >]</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AgetEnvironment" >getEnvironment</A > :: <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > [(<A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >, <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >)]</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AputEnv" >putEnv</A > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AsetEnv" >setEnv</A > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3AunsetEnv" >unsetEnv</A > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Documentation</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:getEnv" ><A NAME="v%3AgetEnv" ></A ></A ><B >getEnv</B > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > (<A HREF="../base/Data-Maybe.html#t%3AMaybe" >Maybe</A > <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AgetEnv" >getEnv</A ></TT > looks up a variable in the environment. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:getEnvDefault" ><A NAME="v%3AgetEnvDefault" ></A ></A ><B >getEnvDefault</B > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AgetEnvDefault" >getEnvDefault</A ></TT > is a wrapper around <TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AgetEnv" >getEnv</A ></TT > where the programmer can specify a fallback if the variable is not found in the environment. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:getEnvironmentPrim" ><A NAME="v%3AgetEnvironmentPrim" ></A ></A ><B >getEnvironmentPrim</B > :: <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > [<A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >]</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:getEnvironment" ><A NAME="v%3AgetEnvironment" ></A ></A ><B >getEnvironment</B > :: <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > [(<A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >, <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A >)]</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AgetEnvironment" >getEnvironment</A ></TT > retrieves the entire environment as a list of <TT >(key,value)</TT > pairs. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:putEnv" ><A NAME="v%3AputEnv" ></A ></A ><B >putEnv</B > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AputEnv" >putEnv</A ></TT > function takes an argument of the form <TT >name=value</TT > and is equivalent to <TT >setEnv(key,value,True{-overwrite-})</TT >. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:setEnv" ><A NAME="v%3AsetEnv" ></A ></A ><B >setEnv</B > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >The <TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AsetEnv" >setEnv</A ></TT > function inserts or resets the environment variable name in the current environment list. If the variable <TT >name</TT > does not exist in the list, it is inserted with the given value. If the variable does exist, the argument <TT >overwrite</TT > is tested; if <TT >overwrite</TT > is <TT >False</TT >, the variable is not reset, otherwise it is reset to the given value. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:unsetEnv" ><A NAME="v%3AunsetEnv" ></A ></A ><B >unsetEnv</B > :: <A HREF="../base/Data-Char.html#t%3AString" >String</A > -> <A HREF="../base/System-IO.html#t%3AIO" >IO</A > <A HREF="../ghc-prim/GHC-Unit.html#t%3A%28%29" >()</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >The <TT ><A HREF="System-Posix-Env.html#v%3AunsetEnv" >unsetEnv</A ></TT > function deletes all instances of the variable name from the environment. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="botbar" >Produced by <A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/" >Haddock</A > version 2.4.2</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></BODY ></HTML >