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class SCATMECH_exception

The class SCATMECH_exception is provided to enable exception handling. Any fatal error by any SCATMECH function will throw an exception of type SCATMECH_exception. Since it inherits the class std::exception, any program that catches exceptions of type reference to std::exception will catch exceptions of type SCATMECH_exception. It is generally recommended that one executes all SCATMECH code in a try loop, such as

try {
    // ... Codes containing SCATMECH routines
}
catch(SCATMECH_exception& e)
{
    cerr << "SCATMECH error:" << e.what() << endl;
}

Include file:

#include "scatmech.h"

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Definition of public elements:

class SCATMECH_exception : public std::exception
{
    SCATMECH_exception(const std::string& m);
    ~SCATMECH_exception() throw() {};
    virtual const char *what() const throw();
};

virtual const char* what()

This function returns a pointer to a string containing the error message.

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Current SCATMECH version: 7.22 (April 2021)