/* JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition by Danny Goodman
John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001 */
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Throwing an Error Object Exception</TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> var letters = new Array("A","B","C","D","E") function getErrorObj(msg) { var err = new Error(msg) // take care of IE5/5.5 if (!err.message) { err.message = msg } return err } function getLetter(fld) { try { var inp = parseInt(fld.value, 10) if (isNaN(inp)) { throw getErrorObj("Entry was not a number.") } if (inp < 1 || inp > 5) { throw getErrorObj("Enter only 1 through 5.") } fld.form.output.value = letters[inp] } catch (e) { alert(e.message) fld.form.output.value = "" fld.focus() fld.select() } } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Throwing an Error Object Exception</H1> <HR> <FORM> Enter a number from 1 to 5: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="input" SIZE=5> <INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Get Letter" onClick=getLetter(this.form.input)> Matching Letter is:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="output" SIZE=5> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>
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