| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-04-05.

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# Method describe_error()

Method describe_error

  `string describe_error(mixed err)`

Description

  Return the error message from an error object or array (typically caught by a catch ). The type of the error is checked, hence err is declared as `mixed` and not `object|array`.

  If an error message couldn't be obtained, a fallback message describing the failure is returned. No errors due to incorrectness in err are thrown.

See also

  describe_backtrace() , get_backtrace