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W12 - Lesson 11. Basic Exception Handling - PRESENTATION

The document explains basic exception handling in programming, defining exceptions as problems that disrupt normal program flow. It describes the use of try and catch blocks to handle exceptions, including the possibility of multiple catch blocks and the use of a finally block for cleanup. Key notes emphasize the execution order of catch blocks and the requirement of try statements for catch clauses.

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W12 - Lesson 11. Basic Exception Handling - PRESENTATION

The document explains basic exception handling in programming, defining exceptions as problems that disrupt normal program flow. It describes the use of try and catch blocks to handle exceptions, including the possibility of multiple catch blocks and the use of a finally block for cleanup. Key notes emphasize the execution order of catch blocks and the requirement of try statements for catch clauses.

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Basic Exception Handling

What is Exception?
- is a problem that arises during the execution of a program.
- it occurs the normal flow of the program is disrupted and the
program/Application terminates abnormally, which is not recommended,
therefore, these exceptions are to be handled.

An exception can occur for many different reasons. Following are some
scenarios where an exception occurs.
• A user has entered an invalid data.
• A file that needs to be opened cannot be found.
• A network connection has been lost in the middle of communications or the
JVM has run out of memory.
Handling Exception

A method catches an exception using a combination of the try and


catch keywords.Code within a try/catch block is referred to as protected
code, and the syntax for using try/catch looks like the following:

try {
// Protected code
}catch(ExceptionName e1) {
// Catch block
}
For example:
public class ExceptionSample {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
int a[] = new int[2];
System.out.println("Access element three :" + a[3]);
}catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
System.out.println("Exception thrown :" + e);
}
System.out.println("Out of the block");
}
}
The result of the example above is:
Exception thrown :java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3
Out of the block
Multiple Catch Blocks
A try block can be followed by multiple catch blocks. The syntax for multiple
catch blocks looks like the following:
try {
// Protected code
}catch(ExceptionType1 e1) {
// Catch block
}catch(ExceptionType2 e2) {
// Catch block
}catch(ExceptionType3 e3) {
// Catch block
}
Here is code segment showing how to use multiple try/catch statements:
Below is the output of the example above:

In the above example, we have two lines that might throw an exception:
arr[5] = 5;
The statement above can cause array index out of bound exception and
result = num1 / num2;
this can cause arithmetic exception.
Notes:

• At a time, only single catch block can be executed. After the execution of
catch block control goes to the statement next to the try block.

• At a time, only single exception can be handled.

• All the exceptions or catch blocks must be arranged in order.


The Finally Block
Using a finally block allows you to run any cleanup-type statements that you want
to execute, no matter what happens in the protected code.
A finally block appears at the end of the catch blocks and has the following syntax
try {
// Protected code
}catch(ExceptionType1 e1) {
// Catch block
}catch(ExceptionType2 e2) {
// Catch block
}catch(ExceptionType3 e3) {
// Catch block
}finally {
// The finally block always executes.
}
For example:
The output of the above example is:

Notes:
• A catch clause cannot exist without a try statement.
• It is not compulsory to have finally clauses whenever a try/catch block is present.
• The try block cannot be present without either catch clause or finally clause.
• Any code cannot be present in between the try, catch, finally blocks.

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