in reply to How to access system environment variables?

All you need to do is:

use Env qw(PATH SYSTEMROOT); # or whatever...

All the info can be found here.

You could also use the built-in pseudohash %ENV like so:

perl -e"print $ENV{PATH}"

UPDATE: Some day I will snatch the pebble from Fastolfe's hand... ++ to him for beating me to it.