Class ddlib.GetEnvironment 
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Class ddlib.GetEnvironment 

java.lang.Object
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public class GetEnvironment
extends Object
GetEnvironment is a trivial class that captures the environment variable using an auxiliary Perl program and returns a corresponding Hashtable through a static method.

To use it, you need to do three things to the source code and/or your environment:

  1. Take out the "package ddlib" and put the class somewhere on your classpath (or replace the ddlib with the name of the library package you put it in);
  2. Be sure you have perl on your path, or fix the line that invokes it;
  3. Be sure you have env.pl in the working directory or fix that same line.

The author makes no warranty that this will work, much less that it will serve as a programming example.

Version:
1.0
Author:
Dan Drake

Constructor Index

o GetEnvironment()

Method Index

o getEnv()
Returns a Hashtable containing all environment variables as keys, and their values as values.
o main(String[])
A trivial exerciser for getEnv().

Constructors

o GetEnvironment 
  public GetEnvironment()

Methods

o getEnv 
  public static Hashtable getEnv() throws Exception
Returns a Hashtable containing all environment variables as keys, and their values as values.

Functions by calling perl env.pl and capturing the output.

Throws: Exception
If it's unable to execute the Perl program, it will throw an Exception with a helpful error message.
o main 
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
A trivial exerciser for getEnv(). It ought to print the PATH when executed on a DOS-ish system.As for Unix, I don't recall enough shell conventions to know what it will do there.
Throws: Exception
If there's a problem, it will let the Java machine print it out. 
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