Posted by Seamus M on 10/10/05 06:17

It appears the exception should be thrown on the line immediately after the
potenially error causing code for "getLine()" to be any use. I was
anticipating it to work like the built-in errors which tell you what line of
code caused the error.

Thanks for your input.

- Seamus

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Seamus M wrote:
>> It seems when I use the getLine() method of the Exception class, it
>> returns the line number of the "throw new Exception" statement and not
>> the line number where the error actually occured in the source file. Am
>> I doing something wrong?
>>
>> - Seamus
>
> How is the exception supposed to know where the error occurred? It could
> have been anything - bad return code, incorrect data, whatever. But in all
> cases, it's something you had to detect. This might have been many lines
> of code before you actually threw the exception, or even in a different
> (included) file.
>
> All the exception can tell is where you threw it.
>
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