Question

JAVA CODE

This program causes an error and crashes. Compile and give it a test run, note the exception that is thrown.
Then do the following to fix the problem

1. Write code to handle this exception
2. Use try, catch and finally blocks.
3. Display, the name of the exception
4. Display a message from the user about what happened.

Here is the starting file

BadArray.java:

public class BadArray {

        public static void main(String[] args) {
                
                 // Create an array with 3 elements.
              int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3 };

              // Attempt to read beyond the bounds
              // of the array.
              for (int i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
                 System.out.println(numbers[i]);
                 
        }

}

Answer 1

public class BadArray {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create an array with 3 elements.
        int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3 };

        try {
            // Attempt to read beyond the bounds
            // of the array.
            for (int i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
                System.out.println(numbers[i]);
        }catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException aob){
            System.out.println("ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: "+aob.getMessage());
        }
    }
}