HP 3000 Manuals

HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual

ERRMSHORT$ 

The ERRMSHORT$ functions returns information about the last error trapped
by the ON ERROR statement.  It returns an error message of the form:

     ERROR n IN LINE m 

where n is the HP Business BASIC/XL error number, and m is the line
number that the error occurred in.

Syntax 

ERRMSHORT$

Example 

     100 ON ERROR CALL Fixit
     110 I=J/0                  !The error occurred here.
     120 END
     200 SUB Fixit
     210 PRINT ERRMSHORT$
     250 SUBEND

The above program prints:

     ERROR 31 IN LINE 110

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