Question

What is the output of the following Java program?

public class Calculation   

{  

    int a;   

    public Calculation(int a)  

    {  

        this.a = a;  

    }  

    public int add()  

    {  

        a = a+10;   

        try   

        {  

            a = a+10;   

            try   

            {  

                a = a*10;   

                throw new Exception();   

            }catch(Exception e){  

                a = a - 10;  

            }  

        }catch(Exception e)  

        {  

            a = a - 10;   

        }  

        return a;  

    }  

      

    public static void main (String args[])  

    {  

        Calculation c = new Calculation(10);  

        int result = c.add();  

        System.out.println("result = "+result);  

    }  

}

Answer 1

Output of the above program is :

Output

result = 290

Explanation

The instance variable a of class Calculation is initialized to 10 using the class constructor which is called while instantiating the class. The add method is called which returns an integer value result. In add() method, a is incremented by 10 to be 20. Then, in the first try block, 10 is again incremented by 10 to be 30. In the second try block, a is multiplied by 10 to be 300. The second try block throws the exception which is caught by the catch block associated with this try block. The catch block again alters the value of a by decrementing it by 10 to make it 290. Thus the add() method returns 290 which is assigned to result. However, the catch block associated with the outermost try block will never be executed since there is no exception which can be handled by this catch block.

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