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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Colin Bell
 * colbell@users.sourceforge.net
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */

import java.io.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * General purpose utilities functions.
 *
 * @author <A HREF="mailto:colbell@users.sourceforge.net">Colin Bell</A>
 */
public class Utilities
{


   /**
    * Return the stack trace from the passed exception as a string
    *
    * @param  th  The exception to retrieve stack trace for.
    */
   public static String getStackTrace(Throwable th)
   {
      if (th == null)
      {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Throwable == null");
      }

      StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
      try
      {
         PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
         try
         {
            th.printStackTrace(pw);
            return sw.toString();
         }
         finally
         {
            pw.close();
         }
      }
      finally
      {
         try
         {
            sw.close();
         }
         catch (IOException ex)
         {
           
         }
      }
   }

}








6.23.Exception
6.23.1.Error Handling
6.23.2.Types of Exceptions
6.23.3.Java's Unchecked RuntimeException Subclasses
6.23.4.Java's Checked Exceptions Defined in java.lang
6.23.5.Throwing an Exception from a Method
6.23.6.Write a catch block that handles java.lang.Exception
6.23.7.Handling Exceptions
6.23.8.Multiple catch Blocks
6.23.9.The finally Block
6.23.10.Exception Objects: stack trace
6.23.11.Defining Your Own Exceptions, Throwing Your Own Exception
6.23.12.Demonstrate exception chaining.
6.23.13.Getting the Stack Trace of an Exception
6.23.14.Put printStackTrace() into a String: redirect the StackTrace to a String with a StringWriter/PrintWriter
6.23.15.Check whether given exception is compatible with the exceptions declared in a throws clause
6.23.16.Convert an exception to a String with full stack trace
6.23.17.Get Deepest Throwable
6.23.18.Get the stack trace of the supplied exception.
6.23.19.Is Checked Exception
6.23.20.Locates a particular type of exception
6.23.21.Make a string representation of the exception
6.23.22.Print all of the thread's information and stack traces
6.23.23.Return stack trace from the passed exception as a string
6.23.24.Returns the root cause of an exception
6.23.25.Create a new Exception, setting the cause if possible.
6.23.26.Returns the output of printStackTrace as a String.
6.23.27.This program creates a custom exception type.
6.23.28.Utility methods for dealing with stack traces