Raise

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The reserved word raise is used to explicitly throw an exception. The raise statement stops normal execution and transfers control to an exception handler.

summary briefly

• belongs to object-oriented programming
• cause an exception

example

program Example1;
uses sysutils;

function titleread(a_title:string):string;
var
  answer:string;
begin
  writeln ( a_title);
  readln(answer);

  if answer = '' then raise Exception.Create('Variable has no value');
  result := answer;
end;

var
  firstname,lastname:string;

begin
  firstname := titleread( 'Write your first name:');
  lastname := titleread( 'Write your last name:');
  writeln ('your name is ', firstname, ' ', lastname);
  readln;
end.

see also

• try..finally block.
• try..except block.
• on
• run-time error