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Re: st: Custom error messages


From   Roger Harbord <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Custom error messages
Date   Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:44:15 +0000

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know how to output custom error messages? By this I mean
> either or both of:
>
> a) inserting my own strings into the "_______"s listed in error files.
> So, while "confirm variable foo" produces "variable foo not found;
> r(111)", I want to be able to have a command throw an error 111 with a
> message like "index variable not found".
<snip>

display as error "index variable not found"
exit 111

-- 
Roger Harbord
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/staff/rharbord.htm
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