Zip.error readonly property



Get the last error message after a zip operation failed.

Example

-- always prints an error message (entry does not exists) local compression = require "compression" -- check parameters : the archive specified as argument local archive = arg[1] or error("no archive specified") -- open the archive local z = compression.Zip(archive) -- always throws an error using the z.error message property local result = z:extract("dummy entry") or error(z.error)