Overview

Reads, parses, loads, and caches environment files and variables. Here is an example of the .env file in the current directory and all the possible types of content it can have and what they result in.

# Comment
EMTPY=
QUOTED="quoted"
QUOTED_WITH_WHITESPACE=" quoted with whitespace " # Trailing comment
MULTI_LINE="multi
line"
UNQUOTED=unquoted
UNQUOTED_WITH_WHITESPACE= unquoted with whitespace
DICTIONARY={"key": "value"}
PATH=/path/to
lowercased=lowercased

import DotEnv

let env = DotEnv()
let path = "./.env"

do {
    try env.load(at: path)
} catch {
    print(error)
}

print(env["EMTPY"]) // Prints Optional("")
print(env["QUOTED"]) // Prints Optional("quoted")
print(env["QUOTED_WITH_WHITESPACE"]) // Prints Optional(" quoted with whitespace ")
print(env["MULTI_LINE"]) // Prints Optional("multi\nline")
print(env["UNQUOTED"]) // Prints Optional("unquoted")
print(env["UNQUOTED_WITH_WHITESPACE"]) // Prints Optional("unquoted with whitespace")
print(env["DICTIONARY"]) // Prints Optional("{\"key\": \"value\"}")
print(env["PATH"]) // Prints Optional("/path/to")
print(env["lowercased"]) // Prints Optional("lowercased")