please clear my doubt

[Raja seemakurthi]

why am i getting compile time error saying, unreachable statement in line number //1
please explain.

  
class ThrowEx {
  private String get ( String str ) {


      try

          {
                 throw new Exception();
                  return str ;                     //1
          }


      catch(Exception e)

          {
                  return null ;
          }



  }

  public static void main ( String peace [ ] ) {
          try
          {
                  System.out.println ( ( new ThrowEx() ).get ( " C " ) ) ;
          }
          catch ( Exception e )
          {
                  System.out.println( "Exception" ) ;
          }
  }
};

[Wouter Oet]

That's because there will always be an exception thrown before it and therefor the return statement will never be reached.
Just remove the return statement

[Bhagat Singh Rawat]

Control will never go at

  return str ;                     //1

.