Try-Catch

Definitions

1. A control-flow construct that executes a block of code (try) and, if an exception is thrown during execution, transfers control to a handler block (catch) matched by exception type, allowing the program to recover or log gracefully instead of crashing.

   In plain English: A way to attempt something risky in code and handle the error gracefully if it goes wrong, instead of letting the program crash.

   Example: "Wrap the JSON.parse call in a try-catch — if someone sends us malformed JSON, we should return a 400, not a 500."

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• Exception
• Iteration
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• Runtime Error
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• Custom Exception