Try: Assign The Error Number To A Variable

Question

Hi, All!
I know there must be a way to do this, but I can't find it.
In the 'On Error' part of a Try, is there a way to set the error number to a variable?
So, I'd like it to look something like this:
on error
set errorNum to [the error number]
if errorNum =
Something like that.
How do I do that?
Thanks in advance!
Any help much appreciated!
-Nate

Answer 1

The error number is a number, not a text string
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try
display dialog "Generate an error?" default answer "script generated error"
error text returned of the result -- make a custom error
on error errorMessage number errorNumber
if errorNumber is -128 then
-- do nothing (cancel)
else
display alert "Error " & errorNumber message errorMessage
end if
end try
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