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Reads the key,value pair from .env file and adds them to the environment
variables. It is great for managing app settings during development and
in production using 12-factor principles.
This is early alpha software and the interfaces may change at any time.
Unit tests are written using the MATLAB unittest package.
Influences:
- Python: python-dotenv
- R: dotenv
- Node.js: dotenv
- Ruby: dotenv
Plan is to focus only on core functionality and then to follow the example of python-dotenv in the case of any conflicts.
- String interpolation using POSIX variable expansion
- Handle escaped quotes in values
- Multi-line values
- Better exceptions
- Default .env file name
- Find .env file by looking in parent directories
- Read multiple files and merge results
- Skip files that are missing (?)
- Improve unit tests, especially that:
- environment variables are modified correctly
- Improve documentation
- Add Contents.m file
- Package as MATLAB toolbox (
.mltbx) - Initial version of HTML help
- Internal refactoring
- Remove support for inline comments and quoted names
- Add "cell" mapping type
- Minor improvements to unit tests
- Initial implementation