# failure::err_msg - Rust
API documentation for the Rust `err_msg` fn in crate `failure`.
Keywords: rust, rustlang, rust-lang, err_msg

# Function failure::err_msg [−] [src]

    pub fn err_msg<D: Display + Debug + Sync + Send + 'static>(msg: D) -> Error

Constructs a `Fail` type from a string.

This is a convenient way to turn a string into an error value that can be passed around, if you do not want to create a new `Fail` type for this use case.

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