.\" Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
.\" Copyright (C) 2001-2009
.\"   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
.\" This file is part of the m17n library documentation.
.\" Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
.\" under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
.\" any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
.\" Invariant Section, no Front-Cover Texts,
.\" and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the
.\" appendix entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
.TH "mtext_getenv" 3m17n "15 Oct 2009" "" "Version 1.5.5" "" "The m17n Library" \" -*- nroff -*-
.ad l
.nh
.SH NAME
mtext_getenv \- Get an environment variable. 


.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBMText\fP*
\fBmtext_getenv\fP (const char *
\fIname\fP)


.SH DESCRIPTION
Get an environment variable. 
.PP
The
.ft B
mtext_getenv()
.ft R
function searches the environment variable list for a string that matches the string pointed to by
.ft B
name\fP.
.ft R
.PP
If there is a match, the function decodes the value according to the current locale (LC_CTYPE) into an M\-text, and return that M\-text.
.PP
If there is no match, the function returns NULL. 
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Information\-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
.br
Copyright (C) 2001\-2009 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
.br
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.
