help on catch block

hi,

In catch block can we assign values to string.

I have code like this

String result=""
try{

//do some thing
result="success";
}
catch(Exception e)
{
//if exception
result="failure"; >>>> can assigning operations like this be done in catch block??;!
System.out.println("Exception"+e);
}
return result;

thanks
hema

Have you tried it?

thanks bear for the response!!
I have not tried that. Before trying wanted to know
is it valid to assign values to string in catch block??

please help me on this.

thanks

Thats y Catch Block is defined. U acn do what ever Operations u want when an Exception is thrown.

You can throw exceptions inside catch blocks, even the exception that was caught! (of course the catch block won't catch itself, you'd need another catch block for that)

It's useful in recovery actually, goes something like this...

<program throws an exception due to an error>
Mr. Catchblock: Ack! I've caught a new problem, must repair it...
Mr. Catchblock: Hmm, normally I can repair it, but this is way too complicated even for me.
Mr. Catchblock: Instead of exiting quietly I'm going to forcifully re-throw the exception I caught, hopefully someone else can deal with it.

thank you sriram and scott.

your inputs helped me to complete certain logic..!

thanks again

In my experience, unless you're just changing/rethrowing the exception, a catch block almost always assigns string values to display and/or log error messages.