OutOfBoundsException

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OutOfBoundsException class
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Superclass	RuntimeException
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An OutOfBoundsException is raised when you attempt to access something by index, and the index passed is not in the correct range.

[edit] Discussion

The usual source of an OutOfBoundsException is code that reads from or assigns to an array. Some other framework methods also raise OutOfBoundsExceptions.

[edit] Sample Code

A trivial example.

dim theList(-1) as String
return theList(0) //an OutOfBoundsException is raised

In the code below, an OutOfBoundsException is raised when i = 10; dimming an array sets the UBound of an array, which is one less than the number of elements.

dim theList(9) as Integer
for i as Integer = 1 to 10
  theList(i) = i
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