Re: [Boost-users] Getting Environment Variables

On 1/19/06, Merrill Cornish wrote:

Is there a Boost way to get environment variables? I _thought_ I had seen a reference to that in the program options libarary, but I can't find it now.

Merrill

How about: std::string get_env(std::string const& name) { char* var = getenv(name.c_str()); //getenv can return NULL, std::string(NULL) throws if(var) return var; else return ""; }