SAS Component Language Dictionary

THROW

Raises an exception

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Control Flow

Syntax
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Syntax

THROW exception;

exception: is the local variable for the exception that you want to process.

Details

All exceptions are subclasses of the SCL Exception class. You can use the CLASS statement to define your own exception classes, and then use THROW statements to raise the exceptions.

When an exception is thrown, normal execution of the SCL entry stops, and SCL begins looking for a CATCH block to process the exception.

Note: You must always declare a variable to hold the thrown exception. [cautionend]

Example

The following class defines a subclass of SCLException called NewException, which defines an attribute named SecondaryMessage:

Class NewException extends SCLException;
   dcl string SecondaryMessage;
endclass;

You can create a new instance of NewException and raise this exception with the THROW statement, as shown here in the ThrowIt class:

Class ThrowIt;
  m: method;
  dcl NewException NE = _new_ NewException('Exception in method m');
  NE.SecondaryMessage = "There's no code in m!";
  throw NE;
  endmethod;
endclass;