Syntax:

    #include <cstdio>
    void perror( const char *str );

The perror() function prints str and an implementation-defined error message corresponding to the global variable errno. For example:

    char* input_filename = "not_found.txt";
    FILE* input = fopen( input_filename, "r" );
    if( input == NULL ) {
      char error_msg[255];
      sprintf( error_msg, "Error opening file '%s'", input_filename );
      perror( error_msg );
      exit( -1 );
    }

If the file called not_found.txt is not found, this code will produce the following output:

    Error opening file 'not_found.txt': No such file or directory

Related Topics: clearerr, feof, ferror, strerror