Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Enclosing Code in a try Block

Lines 22–33 contain a try block, which encloses the code that might throw an exception and the code that should not execute if an exception occurs (i.e., if an exception occurs, the remaining code in the try block will be skipped). A try block consists of the keyword try followed by a block of code enclosed in curly braces. [Note: The term “try block” sometimes refers only to the block of code that follows the try keyword (not including the try keyword itself). For simplicity, we use the term “try block” to refer to the block of code that follows the try keyword, as well as the try keyword.] The statements that read the integers from the keyboard (lines 25 and 27) each use method nextInt to read an int value. Method ...