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Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound

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On 8/12/2011 8:39 AM, KevinSimonson wrote:
...
> Finally, if I have some code that has constructors for _both
> <PrintWriter>  and_<Scanner>, I have to have a<catch>  clause for
> _both<IOException>  and_<FileNotFoundException>, in order to keep the
> compiler happy.
...

This is the most puzzling part of your question. FileNotFoundException
is a subclass of IOException, so a catch clause for IOException should
be sufficient.

Of course, if you want to deal with FileNotFoundException separately you
do have the option of putting in a separate catch clause for it, but the
compiler should not be requiring both.

Patricia

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Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 08:39 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-12 08:54 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-12 08:57 -0700
    Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 11:19 -0700
      Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-12 12:08 -0700
        Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-12 12:26 -0700
      Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-12 19:35 +0000
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-12 12:31 -0700
    Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 13:10 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 14:27 -0700

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