try/catch block in Arduino

The Arduino reference is not listing try catch (for details of why see, for example, this related answer). And I assume, that implementing try catch on a µ-controller could be kind of difficult/impossible. Try catch in most languages is a quite expensive operation: The program stack get copied once for the try block and for … Read more

IsNumeric function in c#

I know it’s possible to check whether the value of a text box or variable is numeric using try/catch statements, but IsNumeric is so much simpler. One of my current projects requires recovering values from text boxes. Unfortunately, it is written in C#. I understand that there’s a way to enable the Visual Basic IsNumeric … Read more

Can I catch multiple Java exceptions in the same catch clause?

This has been possible since Java 7. The syntax for a multi-catch block is: Remember, though, that if all the exceptions belong to the same class hierarchy, you can simply catch that base exception type. Also note that you cannot catch both ExceptionA and ExceptionB in the same block if ExceptionB is inherited, either directly or indirectly, from ExceptionA. The compiler will complain: … Read more

EOFException – how to handle?

While reading from the file, your are not terminating your loop. So its read all the values and correctly throws EOFException on the next iteration of the read at line below: If you read the documentation, it says: Throws: EOFException – if this input stream reaches the end before reading eight bytes. IOException – the stream has … Read more