2.1.1 Obtaining Abaqus environment variables

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit

References

“User subroutines: overview,” Section 17.1.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual
“Using the Abaqus environment settings,” Section 3.3.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual
“UWAVE and UEXTERNALDB,” Section 4.1.27 of the Abaqus Verification Manual

Overview

Utility routines GETENVVAR and VGETENVVAR can be called from any Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit user subroutine, respectively, to obtain the value of an environment variable.

Interface

character*256 ENVVAR
...
CALL GETENVVAR( 'ENVVARNAME',  ENVVAR, LENVVAR )
CALL VGETENVVAR( 'ENVVARNAME',  ENVVAR, LENVVAR )
...

Variable to be provided to the utility routine

ENVVARNAME

Environment variable name.

Variables returned from the utility routine

ENVVAR

Character string to receive the value of the environment variable.

LENVVAR

Length of the character string ENVVAR.