1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Title: curl_easy_strerror 5Section: 3 6Source: libcurl 7See-also: 8 - curl_multi_strerror (3) 9 - curl_share_strerror (3) 10 - curl_url_strerror (3) 11 - libcurl-errors (3) 12Protocol: 13 - All 14--- 15 16# NAME 17 18curl_easy_strerror - return string describing error code 19 20# SYNOPSIS 21 22~~~c 23#include <curl/curl.h> 24 25const char *curl_easy_strerror(CURLcode errornum); 26~~~ 27 28# DESCRIPTION 29 30The curl_easy_strerror(3) function returns a string describing the 31CURLcode error code passed in the argument *errornum*. 32 33Typically applications also appreciate CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER(3) for more 34specific error descriptions generated at runtime. 35 36# EXAMPLE 37 38~~~c 39int main(void) 40{ 41 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 42 if(curl) { 43 CURLcode res; 44 /* set options */ 45 /* Perform the entire transfer */ 46 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 47 /* Check for errors */ 48 if(res != CURLE_OK) 49 fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", 50 curl_easy_strerror(res)); 51 } 52} 53~~~ 54 55# AVAILABILITY 56 57This function was added in libcurl 7.12.0 58 59# RETURN VALUE 60 61A pointer to a null-terminated string. 62