I caught a FileException, and want to print out the descriptive error, but not the stacktrace. I cannot see how to do this at the moment. I only see the toString function.

i.e. in the case below I would like to obtain "c:/temp\junk: The directory is not empty." or something similar, but not the stack trace.

faild to remove c:/temp\junk (error: std.file.FileException@std\file.d(1462): c:
/temp\junk: The directory is not empty.
----------------
0x00412938
0x004021C2
0x004025B8
0x0040E228
0x0040E1FB
0x0040E114
0x0040A2CB
0x761FED5C in BaseThreadInitThunk
0x77D837EB in RtlInitializeExceptionChain
0x77D837BE in RtlInitializeExceptionChain)

On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 14:43:18 UTC, Spacen Jasset wrote:
> I caught a FileException, and want to print out the descriptive error, but not the stacktrace.

Try writing the exception's 'msg' field (it's a string).

There is also 'file' and 'line'. See the class Throwable (in object.d or object.di) and the FileException class in std.file (it has some additional fields like errno).

Am 25.03.2014 15:43, schrieb Spacen Jasset:
> I caught a FileException, and want to print out the descriptive error, but not the stacktrace. I cannot see how to do this at the moment. I only see the toString function.
> 
> i.e. in the case below I would like to obtain "c:/temp\junk: The directory is not empty." or something similar, but not the stack trace.
> 
> faild to remove c:/temp\junk (error:
> std.file.FileException@std\file.d(1462): c:
> /temp\junk: The directory is not empty.
> ----------------
> 0x00412938
> 0x004021C2
> 0x004025B8
> 0x0040E228
> 0x0040E1FB
> 0x0040E114
> 0x0040A2CB
> 0x761FED5C in BaseThreadInitThunk
> 0x77D837EB in RtlInitializeExceptionChain
> 0x77D837BE in RtlInitializeExceptionChain)

Exceptions have a msg or message (cant remember which one) attribute, you can use it to get only the message, without the stacktrace

Spacen Jasset:

> I caught a FileException, and want to print out the descriptive error, but not the stacktrace. I cannot see how to do this at the moment. I only see the toString function.

void main() {
    import std.stdio;

    try {
        File("hello");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        writeln(e.msg);
    }
}

Bye,
bearophile

I see thanks. I couldn't see the throwable class at the time.