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// This code demonstrates catching and also throwing exceptions.
// In real code, reusable modules that detect errors can't know what
// to do about them, while the application that uses those modules
// knows what to do, but can't easily detect errors. So reusable
// modules often throw exceptions and applications/applets catch them.
//
// In this class, no "checked" exceptions are used, so no try-catch block
// is actually required. (Should an Exception occur, the JRE uses a default
// handler that prints the exception and a stack trace to the console.) If
// the "inverse" method threw a checked exception than it would need to be
// declared with a "throws" clause, something similar to this:
// float inverse ( float num ) throws WhatEverException
//
// You can find a list of standard Exceptions in java.lang (and other)
// packages, in the JavaDocs.
//
// Written 3/2006 by Wayne Pollock, Tampa Florida USA.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
class ExceptionDemo
{
public static void main ( String [] args )
{
int num = 0;
String input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter a number:" );
try
{
num = Integer.parseInt( input );
System.out.println( "The inverse of " + num + " is " + inverse(num) );
}
catch ( NumberFormatException e )
{
System.out.println( "\"" + input + "\" is not a number!" );
}
// Comment out the following catch clause, run with "0" (zero), and
// see the default error handler output.
catch ( IllegalArgumentException e )
{
System.out.println( e.getMessage() );
}
}
static float inverse ( float num ) // throws IllegalArgumentException
{
if ( num == 0.0f )
throw new IllegalArgumentException( "num must not be zero!" );
return 1 / num;
}
}