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calc/help/strerror
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NAME
strerror - returns a string describing an error value
SYNOPSIS
strerror([x])
TYPES
x error-value or integer in [0, 32767], defaults to errno()
return string
DESCRIPTION
If x is the error-value with index n, strerror(x) and strerror(n)
return one of:
a system-generated message,
a calc-generated description,
a user-defined description created by newerror(str),
the string "Error n",
where, in the last form, n is represented decimally.
EXAMPLE
System error messages may be different for different systems.
> errmax(errcount()+3)
0
> strerror(2)
"No such file or directory"
> x = 3 * ("a" + "b")
> print strerror(x)
Bad arguments for +
> a = newerror("alpha")
> print strerror(a)
alpha
> print strerror(999)
Error 999
> a = 1/0
> print strerror()
Division by zero
LIMITS
none
LIBRARY
none
SEE ALSO
errcount, errmax, error, iserror, errno, newerror, errorcodes