How to catch the

I'm dealing with below element and having trouble with getting the error message text in to a variable.

<mat-error _ngcontent-c16="" class="mat-error ng-star-inserted" id="error-email-required" role="alert" style=""> Email is a required field </mat-error>

Catching the element is straight forward.

var emailReqiredLabel = element(by.id('error-email-required'));

I tried below options but all printing as >> visible error message is : [object Object]

• var errormsg = emailReqiredLabel.getText().toString();

• var errormsg = emailReqiredLabel.getAttribute('value').toString();

  console.log("visible error message is : " + emailRequiredErrorMessage);

can someone advice please.