Can I just parse a dotenv file to a HashMap<String, String>?

[alshdavid]

Looking at the API it seems to load the dotenv file into the process environment. This is undesirable for my use case as I'd like to simply parse the env file from a specified file path to a HashMap<String, String>.

Is this possible with the current crate?

[allan2]

@alshdavid, this is precisely the new recommended behaviour in v0.16.

EnvLoader::from_path(path).load() returns HashMap<String, String> and does not modify the environment.
For those who do wish to modify the environment, there is the unsafe EnvLoader::load_and_modify.