As with Java and some other programming languages, Kotlin uses try and catch to help deal with possible exceptions. You wrap the code that might raise an exception in try, and you then chain a catch block to deal with an exception if one is raised. The catch block gets the exception (e in this case) and can use it, such as printing it as we are doing here.

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