== dotenv

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=== Description

A lightweight utility for CHICKEN Scheme that loads environment variables from 
a {{.env}} file into the current process's environment. It supports comments, 
trims whitespace, and handles values containing equal signs.

=== API

==== [procedure] (load-dotenv [filepath])

Reads the file specified by {{filepath}} (which defaults to {{".env"}}) and 
sets environment variables using the standard {{setenv}} procedure.

* Valid lines are formatted as {{KEY=VALUE}}.
* Lines starting with {{#}} are ignored as comments.
* Empty lines are ignored.
* Leading and trailing whitespace is automatically trimmed from both keys and values.

=== Examples

Assuming you have a file named {{.env}}:
<enscript highlight="text">
DB_PORT=5432
API_KEY=secret_key_123
# This is a comment
</enscript>

You can load it in your Scheme code like this:

<enscript highlight="scheme">
(import dotenv)

;; Load the default .env file
(load-dotenv)

;; Access the variables
(print (get-environment-variable "DB_PORT")) ; => "5432"
</enscript>

=== Requirements

* [[srfi-13]]

=== About this egg

==== Author

[[/users/masoodrb|Masood Ahmed]]

==== Repository

[[https://github.com/masoodrb/dotenv]]

==== License

MIT