Load .env variables

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Hello im trying to load .env variables with

dbConn := os.Getenv("DB")
fmt.Println("DB": , dbConn)

But dosn’t work, how do i load variables?

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Works for me, (note I fixed the error where : is outside the quotes):

C:\path>type printenvvar.go
package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "os"
)

func main() {
        dbConn := os.Getenv("DB")
        fmt.Println("DB:", dbConn)
}

C:\path>set DB=db from env

C:\path>go run printenvvar.go
DB: db from env
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Hello, can i just read them from the .env file?
why i have to set them?

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You can read whatever file you like, but that’s not the point of environment variables. Environment variable - Wikipedia

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.env (“dotenv”) files seem to be a relatively recent thing and support is not built into Go. You have to find a 3rd party library to read your dotenv file and load its data into the process’s environment variables, such as joho/godotenv: A Go port of Ruby’s dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env.) (github.com).

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