what is try catch

[Naveen31]

Can You please explain What is TRY CATCH

[Alberto Consonn]

Hi Naveen,

check the explaination provided to the below thread, it will be very useful for understanding the try/catch concept:

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=53371ed8dbfe6700107d5583ca96...

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Alberto

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

Hi Naveen,

basically try catch block is used to handle exceptions and is good practice

Example: consider an example where you need to run a background script which would update 1000 records on table based on some condition; such as update field and do concatenation etc

if you don't use try catch block and if the update fails because of some reason because of invalid character etc the subsequent records won't be updated and code would break.

if you use try catch block then it would log the exception and proceed to the next records; in this way only that record won't get updated and all others for which exception is not thrown would get updated

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Thanks
Ankur