beginnerOOP & Core Syntax
Can you catch multiple exception types in a single catch block?
Yes, using multi-catch syntax introduced in Java 7: catch (IOException | SQLException e) { ... } — this avoids duplicating the same handling logic across multiple catch blocks. The caveat: the exception types in a multi-catch can't be related by inheritance (you can't combine a class and its own subclass), and the resulting variable e is implicitly final.
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