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Shell.ReadErrorText

Reads error.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Shell 7.5 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No
MBS( "Shell.ReadErrorText"; ShellRef { ; Encoding } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
ShellRef The reference number from the shell. $shell
Encoding The text encoding for result.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.
UTF8 Optional

Result

Returns text or error.

Description

Reads error.
When child process writes something to error stream, you can read it here.

The plugin internally queries Shell.AvailableBytesError to see how much to read and return.

See also

Example Databases

Blog Entries

This function checks for a license.

Created 11st November 2017, last changed 22nd April 2021


Shell.ProcessIdentifier - Shell.ReadOutputText

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