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oh,i know

Posted by yinbin on July 19, 2001 at 9:57 AM

> > You must be inheriting all your three exceptions classes from Exception class. So, in catch just pass an argument of type Exception and not of one of three types you have created and this will catch any of your three types of exceptions.

> > try {
> > }
> > catch ( Exception e ) {
> > // If you want to take action based on which type
> > // of exception ( out of 3) was caught then check the
> > // type of argument e here
> > }
> but the question means that you must catch three Exceptions once in a single catch block,but how?
yes,i know,i can use upcasting to upcast a class to its base-class,thank you!