message Property (Visual Studio - JScript)

Returns an error message string.

errorObj.message

Arguments

  • errorObj
    Required. Instance of Error object.

Remarks

The message property is a string containing an error message associated with a specific error. Use the value contained in this property to alert a user to an error that you can't or don't want to handle.

The description and message properties refer to the same message; the description property provides backwards compatibility, while the message property complies with the ECMA standard.

Example

The following example causes an exception to be thrown and displays the message of the error.

try
{
    var arr = new Array(-1);
}
catch(e)
{
    print ("Error Message: " + e.message);
    print ("Error Code: " + (e.number & 0xFFFF))
    print ("Error Name: " + e.name);
}

The output of this code is as follows.

Error Message: Array length must be zero or a positive integer
Error Code: 5029
Error Name: RangeError

Requirements

Version 5.5

Applies To:

Error Object

See Also

Reference

description Property

name Property