From: Martin Hart <martin@...>
Date: 2004-04-13T00:30:16+09:00
Subject: Re: error catching question:

On Monday 12 Apr 2004 4:24 pm, Greg Brondo wrote:
> I have some code that checks a pop3 email box for me.  It is wrapped in a
> begin/rescue clause.  However, somehow it seems to have escaped the rescue
> clause:
>
[snip]
>
> Any ideas why the begin/rescue didn't catch it?
>
> Thanks,.
> Greg B.

rescue by itself only catches StandardError and derivatives I think..

try

begin
	#your code
rescue Exception => e
	#your code
end

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