please clear my doubt

[Raja seemakurthi]

why am i getting compile time error saying, unreachable statement in line number //1
please explain.

class ThrowEx {
private String get ( String str ) {
try
{
throw new Exception();
return str ; //1
}
catch(Exception e)
{
return null ;
}
}
public static void main ( String peace [ ] ) {
try
{
System.out.println ( ( new ThrowEx() ).get ( " C " ) ) ;
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
System.out.println( "Exception" ) ;
}
}
};

[Wouter Oet]

That's because there will always be an exception thrown before it and therefor the return statement will never be reached.
Just remove the return statement

[Bhagat Singh Rawat]

Control will never go at

 return str ; //1

.