Any quick way to call a directory using an environment variable in Powershell

Question

Say I have a user environment variable named p and it's value is the path where I store my projects.

In Command Prompt you can use them to quickly access a particular directory from anywhere on the command line:

cd %p%

This doesn't work in Powershell, is there anyway to get the same functionality?

Answer 1

Environment variables have their own provider:

cd $env:p

Answer 2

addtional info: You can also set that environment variable for your session incase you need to change it for some reason during your session

$env:p = "C:\MyPath"

Or to set it globally if you need to update it

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("p", "C:\MyPath", "User")

This would create the user environment variable.