Re: printing error messages

In article <a13081bb-7012-480f-85e2-de62db236222@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
gsa <hsggwk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am new to C so please bear with my stupid questions. I am
trying to open a file to write, but the code complains that it is
unable to do so. How do I get C to print the reason it is failing?
Something like the $! function in perl.

See the documentation on perror(). (Note: perror has some subtle
limitations that can make it a better idea to use the lower-level
equivilents... which you will likely find references to in the
perror() documentation.)
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