Support for environment variables

[xvxx]

I don't think there's a way to get ENV variables in LDPL currently, right?

If not, they could either be pre-set like argv and argc, or there could be a new statement like STORE ENV AT "PATH" IN $path to do a lookup.

[xvxx]

Okay, you can do it this way:

$ cat env.ldpl
DATA:
$name is text
PROCEDURE:
execute "echo $NAME" and store output in $name
display "Your name is: " $name

$ ./env-bin
Your name is:
$ env NAME=Bobby ./env-bin
Your name is: Bobby

Maybe that's good enough? It's nice to keep the language small.

[Lartu]

The language is growing beyond what I've thought it would. It's still not a really usable language though. What I'm saying here is: if you'd like to add something to the language it's ok to do so.

In this particular case, I don't feel this is a necessary thing, as you can do that, but the main problem here is that environmental variables are different in Windows and in Unix/BSD, so making something that works for both would be kind of a chore.

[xvxx]

In this particular case, I don't feel this is a necessary thing, as you can do that, but the main problem here is that environmental variables are different in Windows and in Unix/BSD, so making something that works for both would be kind of a chore.

Makes sense! I like this reasoning. 👍

[Lartu]

Awesome! Thank you! I'll be closing this then.