Laravel .env variable always returns null

Question

I added this variable to .env file

STRIPE_SECRET=a12345

I would like to dump the variable using routes/web.php

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Answer 1

You can clear configuration cache using following commands

php artisan config:clear 
php artisan optimize
php artisan config:cache

Also make sure

If you are using the config:cache command during deployment, you must make sure that you are only calling the env function from within your configuration files, and not from anywhere else in your application. If you are calling env from within your application, it is strongly recommended you add proper configuration values to your configuration files and call env from that location instead, allowing you to convert your env calls to config calls.

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Update 1:

Also make sure you have renamed .env.example to .env file by default laravel have .env.example

Update 2

As per your new update question your env file have STRIPE not STRIPE_SECRET so you have access like this if its not typo error in question

env('STRIPE')