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Re: st: Custom error messages


From   Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Custom error messages
Date   Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:51:45 -0600

To expand further:

capture whatever
local rc = _rc
if `rc' {
   * may be some branching depending on the value of `rc'
   di "{err}Custom error message"
   exit `rc'
}

On 2/24/09, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> To expand on this slightly:
>
>  Setting aside the implementation details, which are not of concern,
>  -error- is best thought of as a wrapper for -display as err- with some
>  generic message followed by -exit- and a non-zero return code.
>
>  Thus, if you want a different error message, or (less commonly) you want
>  a different or specific return code, you should fall back on -display-
>  followed by -exit-. It's certainly good style to add the return code.
>
>  Nick
>  [email protected]
>
>  Roger Harbord
>
>
>  On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
>  >
>
> > 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
>
>
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