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}</pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Construct an ad-hoc error from a string or existing non-<code>anyhow</code> error
value.</p>
<p>This evaluates to an <ahref="struct.Error.html"title="struct anyhow::Error"><code>Error</code></a>. It can take either just a
string, or a format string with arguments. It also can take any custom type
which implements <code>Debug</code> and <code>Display</code>.</p>
<p>If called with a single argument whose type implements <code>std::error::Error</code>
(in addition to <code>Debug</code> and <code>Display</code>, which are always required), then that
Error impl’s <code>source</code> is preserved as the <code>source</code> of the resulting
<spanclass="kw">return </span><spanclass="prelude-val">Err</span>(<spanclass="macro">anyhow!</span>(<spanclass="string">"key length must be 16 characters, got {:?}"</span>, key));
