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C# C# Objects Inheritance Catching Exceptions

William Schultz
William Schultz
2,926 Points
Posted by William Schultz
William Schultz
2,926 Points

[SOLVED]How do you wrap an if statement in try/catch? Confused about Challenge question.

So for the first challenge question I wrote an if statement identical to that shown in the follow up question. The next question says "wrap the testing logic with a try/catch and write the message............." I can't for the life of me figure out how to use try/catch here. The if statement is checking the value and throwing the exception, unlike the video where our program "try"ed to create an object (MapLocation) out of range and the exception was caught. In this Challenge question the evaluation of the if statement is true, therefore it throws an exception. How the heck would I go about trying anything? and how would I catch the exception without trying anything? So confused for the first time in this course.

Program.cs 
int value = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

if (value < 0 || value > 20)
{
    throw new System.Exception();
}

Console.WriteLine(string.Format("You entered {0}",value));

Ok, I figured it out after some more brain effort. Disregard the question. :)