From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno@...>
Date: 2005-06-08T10:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: I cannot get rescue to work

Assaph Mehr wrote:

>Xeno Campanoli wrote:
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>>The example on page 108 of pickaxe gives me the following syntax error, for
>>instance:
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>>./try4.rb:11: syntax error
>>rescue SystemCallError
>>      ^
>>xeno@linux:~/study/data>
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>>Presumably there is something simple I'm doing wrong.  Please make a
>>suggestion, as I'm really stuck.
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>Can you post the whole file, or at least the context in which this
>statement is used?
>Kinda hard to catch syntax errors without the code.
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Sorry, I tried to say before, I figured it out.  It turns out you have 
to put the rescue segment
on the bottom of the block, apparently, and I made it work when I did 
that.  I was however
fooled by the raise statement I left in afterwards.  In taking out the 
raise, and putting in
my own diagnostics, I now have mostly what I want, though it would be 
nicer to get a line
number or statement indicator at the rescue point.  For now I'm just 
assigning the line to a
global to keep it around.  If anyone can make a suggestion on that, it 
would also be helpful.

Thanks to the several people who have helped me on this.

Sincerely,

Xeno

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