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Return the value of the environment variable var.
For example,
getenv ("PATH")
returns a string containing the value of your path.
Set the value of the environment variable var to value.
If no value is specified then the variable will be assigned the null string.
Delete the environment variable var.
Return 0 if the variable was deleted, or did not exist, and -1 if an error occurred.