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Posts tagged error-handling

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Q&A cannot initialize a variable of type 'CFDictionaryRef'

Background story: I'm on mac OS 11.6 and would like to access an identifier for the current space/desktop from the command line. I found a helpful article at https://ianyh.com/blog/identifying-spac...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by foobar‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Multiple catches with almost the same code.

I find myself often writing code like this. try { // code } catch( FailedReadException const & ex) { file.close(); std::cerr << "Read failure " << ex.readFailure() <&...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Estela‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Ayxan Haqverdili‭