What's wrong with this code? What does the output look like?

always the format is
try{
    ...
}
catch(Exception e){
    ....
}
finally{
......
}

http://www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/java/index.html#try-catch-finallystatement
http://www.churchillobjects.com/c/11012c.html
http://www.janeg.ca/scjp/flow/try.html

try{
   System.out.print(“Hello world “);
}
}
catch(Exception e){
}
finally{
System.out.println(“Finally Executing “);
}

output:
Hello world
Finally Executing

have a look at beginners site...
http://www.janeg.ca/scjp/language.html

there should not be a try block without catch....

place a catch block after the try...like:

try{
System.out.println("Hello World");
}

catch(Exception e) {     // one or more catch block is a MUST.
System.out.println("Exception in : " +e);
}

finally {       // one or none....OPTIONAL
System.out.println("Finally Executing");
}

here also, the same repeated mahesh.... ;-) ...

ok no problem..... :-)

Actually - its perfectly legal to have a try-finally (without a catch).

For example :

      try
      {
         System.out.println("hello");
      }
      finally
      {
         System.out.println("world");
      }

Will print out :

   Hello
   World

This is useful if you want to definitively do some sort of cleanup behavior (e.g. close a database connection), even in the face of an exception, but you don't want to handle the exception (e.g. it gets propagated out of the method, to the caller).

yeah, some format for try catch is explained in the links i posted....

aquemini001, your program with a try - finally is completely legal according to the JAVA 2 standards.

It doesn't compile because you should surround strings with "
that is: ordinary double quotes and not the wordprocessor characters in your example.

Om my machine, W2K JAVA 2 1.4.2_04 it compiles and works OK.

;JOOP!

It is also possible that some other part of your program is giving compilation errors. Could you post the full code?

Some say i must have a "catch" after a try. Some say i don't. If it works both ways, which one is better? or is it just a matter of preference. Which was is more standard? to ALWAYS have a catch statement after a try? Can you u just have an empty catch statement followed by the "finally"?
Thanks

that helped, thanks!

Yep....sorry for my stupid post...

lhankins comment is cool...

no, your answers are good too, you've answered a couple of my other questons. thanks