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Accessing environment variables

Environment variables are key-value pairs given to a process by the operating system right before it starts. They are mainly used to configure the process on runtime. In C/C++, the environment variables are passed to the main function as arguments. In zig, the environment variables are can be accessed from the init object which is passed to the main function as argument. Let's see how that works.

Program - Printing all inherited environment variables using zig.

To print out all the environment variables, we will utilize the environment variable iterator.