Added example of a private key as a string being passed

Nexmo · Oct 21, 2019 · d05faa7 · d05faa7
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@@ -145,6 +145,19 @@ NEXMO_APPLICATION_ID=my_application_id
 NEXMO_PRIVATE_KEY=./private.key
 ```
 
+Private keys can either be a path to a file, like above, or the string of the key itself:
+
+```dotenv
+NEXMO_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n[...]\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
+```
+
+```dotenv
+NEXMO_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
+[...]
+-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
+"
+```
+
 Usage
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