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Message:

answer for try and catch

Posted by Y.M.Sudarsan on August 07, 2000 at 11:10 AM

> I entered a simple program because it uses a try and catch
> statement and I have no experience with the two. Here's the code
> as seen in the book. It throws two errors and I cannot find the
> answer. Give a holler if you see anything wrong with the code.

> Thanks, Steve:

> public class Fruit
> {
> public static void main(String[] args)
> {
> int numOranges = 5;
> int numApples = 10;
> int numFruit = 0;
>
> numFruit = numOranges + numApples;

> System.out.println("A totally fruity program.");
> System.out.println("Total fruit is " + numFruit);
>
> System.out.println("(press ENTER to exit)");
> try
> {
> System.in.read();
> }
> catch (IOException e)
> {
> return;
> }
> }
> }

> The errors are:

> 17: Exception java.io.IOException must be caught, or it must be
> declared in the throws clause of this method.
> System.in.read();
> ^

> 19: Class IOException not found.
> catch (IOException e)
> ^


Dear steve,
type this first :
import java.io.*;
then type type the rest of the code. Your program will compile and execute correctly



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