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+package main
+
+import "os"
+
+// getEnv will check if the the key exists, if it does then it'll
+// return the value otherwise it will return fallback string.
+func getEnv(key, fallback string) string {
+	// We use os.LookupEnv instead of using os.GetEnv and checking
+	// if the length equals 0 because environment variable can be
+	// set and be of length 0. User could've set key="" which
+	// means the variable was set but the length is 0. There is no
+	// reason why user would want to do this over here though.
+	value, exists := os.LookupEnv(key)
+	if !exists {
+		value = fallback
+	}
+	return value
+}