fstrerror

Purpose

Returns an error message explaining the cause of the most recent file I/O error.

Format

s = fstrerror()

Returns:

s (string) – error message.

Remarks

Any time an I/O error occurs on a file opened with fopen(), an internal error flag is updated. (This flag, unlike those accessed by fcheckerr() and fclearerr(), is not specific to a given file; rather, it is system-wide.)

The fstrerror() function returns an error message based on the value of this flag, clearing it in the process. If no error has occurred, a null string is returned.

Since fstrerror() clears the error flag, if you call it twice in a row, it will always return a null string the second time.

The Windows system command called by ftell() does not set the internal error flag accessed by fstrerror(). Therefore, calling fstrerror() after ftell() on Windows will not produce any error information.

See also

Functions fopen(), ftell()