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 ...
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