MESSAGE function and error handling

I just stumbled across the MESSAGE function which takes a message identifier of the form

foo:bar:id

and creates an object that can be used with ERROR and WARNING that has the same id and the corresponding error/warning message. This seems like it could provide an easy way of making the error handling in my code more consistent with TMW error handling. To do this I would need a list of the standard message ids.

Is there a documented list of all the error message ids someplace?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no documented list. To see what exists, see my discussion at https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/373512-how-can-i-open-message-key-catalog#answer_296850

Answer 2

[Aditya Hegde]

Hi,

Use the lasterror command to see the error id. For example if you are using strrep and it throws an error, you can then use the lasterror command to check the error id. Hope this helps.