this snippet will set a new system environment variable named bob. if you want to create a user environment variable, use the commented out code instead. make sure you understand the difference before you do this blindly. a system environment variable will affect all users on that machine. a user environment variable will affect only that specific user. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $Reg;
use Win32::TieRegistry ( 
    TiedRef => \$Reg, 
    ArrayValues => 1, 
    Delimiter => '/', 
    ':REG_' 
);
# this is the system environment variable area
my $SysEnv= $Reg->{"LMachine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/" . 
    "Session Manager/Environment/"}
    or  die "Can't open Registry key, Session Manager/Environment: $^E
+\n";

# create a new value and set it's data
$SysEnv->{"/bob"} = "test system";

# # this is the user environment variable area
# my $UserEnv= $Reg->{"CUser/Environment/"}
#     or  die "Can't open Registry key, CUser/Environment: $^E\n";

# # create a new value and set it's data
# $UserEnv->{"/bob"} = "test user";

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thanks to tye, as most of this code is pasted from his example here.

~Particle

In reply to Re: actual sys environment variables by particle
in thread actual sys environment variables by RayRay459

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