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Posted July 3, 2019 3:40pm by

What is "ex"? where did it come from? Why does it work?

I understand that Exception is from System, but what is this ex "keyword".

July 8, 2019 12:26pm

Accidental comment, disregard.

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July 3, 2019 3:54pm

The idea is that if an error occurs, the system will return to you an exception object. Inside of your Catch function, you need to give this a name.

So the Exception ex is the type then the name of that variable. It could have been for another function something like string MyString.

So you're saying any parameter sent to my catch method of the type Exception I would reference it as ex.

Then you can later drill down into that object to find other things, like the exception's message.

July 3, 2019 5:21pm

But why is it "ex" is that syntax?

July 3, 2019 6:03pm

Hi Matthew De-Veale Cutts , the ex specifically is the name you chose to give the variable.

So it's setup in a TYPE Name relationship. So the TYPE is an Exception and the Name is the name of the variable. This example chose ex but it could be exception or even random like BadNews.

Make sense?

July 4, 2019 12:02pm

Kevin Gates I think i get it! So Exception is a type (like int, double, etcetc) and ex is a variable name (like X)

July 8, 2019 12:26pm

Correct.

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