Thread: Exception Handling

Hello all,

First of all sorry for the indescriptive title, but I don't really know if the issue is with code or IDE, and rather why it's happening.

Qustion: Why is this giving me an error? I'd expect that I should be able to print the name of the exception with out issues with this code.

 
try{
//code
}catch (Exception e){
	System.out.println("Error .. " e.toString());//line 25
}

 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 

	Syntax error on token "e", delete this token



	at HR20ID3Reader.main(HR20ID3Reader.java:25)

Eclipse suggests that I use this code instead:

try{
//code
}catch (Exception e){
	System.out.println("Error .. " .toString());//line 25
}

 

Error .. 

This output is lacking the name of the exception.

-Mel

System.out.println("Error .. " e.toString());

String addition...I believe you want to add the 2 strings together?

"Error..." + e.toString()

You might consider using the e.printStackTrace() as it provides a lot more detail as to the exception, which oftentimes comes in very handy