Thread: Obtaining error messages in C++

Hi! How does one get access to the standard error messages in C++?

In C you can get the error message from strerror(), provided you have the error code. How can something similar be achieved using the iostreams library in C++? I thought that the exception messages could be useful but doesn't seem like it. "Underflow error reading the file" isn't too helpful :-/ And looking for "c++ error message" on the internet gets only pages on compiler error messages

I'm looking for the equivalent of:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
    // pretend a directory is a file
    FILE* f = fopen("/", "r");
    getc(f);

    // print the resulting error message
    char* error_message = strerror(errno);
    // output: Oopsie: Is a directory
    printf("Oopsie: %s\n", error_message);

    return 0;
}