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- error message ?info? ?code?
- Returns a TCL_ERROR code, which causes command
- interpretation to be unwound. Message is a string that
- is returned to the application to indicate what went
- wrong.
-
- If the info argument is provided and is non-empty, it
- is used to initialize the global variable errorInfo.
- errorInfo is used to accumulate a stack trace of what
- was in progress when an error occurred; as nested
- commands unwind, the Tcl interpreter adds information
- to errorInfo. If the info argument is present, it is
- used to initialize errorInfo and the first increment of
- unwind information will not be added by the Tcl
- interpreter. In other words, the command containing
- the error command will not appear in errorInfo; in its
- place will be info. This feature is most useful in
- conjunction with the catch command: if a caught error
- cannot be handled successfully, info can be used to
- return a stack trace reflecting the original point of
- occurrence of the error:
-
- catch {...} errMsg
- set savedInfo $errorInfo
- ...
- error $errMsg $savedInfo
-
-
- If the code argument is present, then its value is
- stored in the errorCode global variable. This variable
- is intended to hold a machine-readable description of
- the error in cases where such information is available;
- see the section BUILT-IN VARIABLES below for
- information on the proper format for the variable. If
- the code argument is not present, then errorCode is
- automatically reset to ``NONE'' by the Tcl interpreter
- as part of processing the error generated by the
- command.
-