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C# C# Objects Inheritance Catching Exceptions

Ilya Sikharulidze
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Ilya Sikharulidze
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Posted by Ilya Sikharulidze
Ilya Sikharulidze
Courses Plus Student 1,073 Points

Exception

Now wrap the testing logic with a try/catch and write the message "Value is out of bounds!" to the console if the exception is caught. I don't really understand where exactly to put try/catch, on my code below it doesn't work, can somebody please explain how it works?

Program.cs 
int value = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

if (value < 0 || value > 20)
{
    throw new System.Exception();
}
try
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}",value));
}
catch (Exception)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Value is out of bounds!");
}

2 Answers

caits
caits
4,578 Points

You want to "try" the if statement, and "catch" the exception if it's thrown, printing out the out of bounds message. If the value is within the accepted range, the last line, which should be 

Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}",value));

will be executed instead. That last line needs to be outside the try/catch blocks. I'm sorry if that's not a great explanation, but hopefully it'll help a little.