harbour-core/harbour/source/common/hbgete.c

/*
 * $Id$
 */

/*
 * Harbour Project source code:
 * environment variables access
 *
 * Copyright 2001-2002 Antonio Linares <alinares@fivetech.com>
 * www - http://www.harbour-project.org
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/* NOTE: Notice that this code is needed as ANSI C getenv() crashes
         so badly when used from a Windows DLL. */

/* For OS/2 */
#define INCL_DOSMISC

#define HB_OS_WIN_32_USED

#include "hbapi.h"

/* NOTE: Warning, this function _may_ return NULL as a result if
         the environment variable reading fails form some reason.
         If the return value is not NULL, the caller must free
         the pointer. [vszakats] */

char * hb_getenv( const char * szName )
{
   char * pszBuffer = NULL;

#if defined(HB_OS_WIN_32)

   {
      DWORD size = GetEnvironmentVariableA( szName, NULL, 0 );

      if( size != 0 )
      {
         pszBuffer = ( char * ) hb_xgrab( size );
         GetEnvironmentVariableA( szName, pszBuffer, size );
      }
   }

#elif defined(HB_OS_OS2)

   {
   #ifdef __GNUC__
      PSZ EnvValue = "";
   #else
      PCSZ EnvValue = "";
   #endif

      if( DosScanEnv( szName, &EnvValue ) == NO_ERROR )
      {
         pszBuffer = hb_strdup( EnvValue );
      }
   }

#else

   {
      char * pszTemp = getenv( szName );

      if( pszTemp != NULL )
      {
         pszBuffer = hb_strdup( pszTemp );
      }
   }

#endif

   return pszBuffer;
}