HOW to work with exception handling, i have error UNDEFINED SYMBOL TRY IN C++

[TINTU]

#include<iostre am.h>
#include<conio. h>
int main()
{
int x,y;
clrscr();
cout<<"ENTER VALUES FOR X AND Y"<<"\n";
cin>>x>>y;
int j;
j=x>y?0:1;

try
{

if(j==0)
{
cout<<"SUBTRACT ION OF X AND Y"<<(x-y)<<"\n";
}

else
{
throw(j);
}

}

catch(int k)
{
cout<<"EXCEPTIO N CAUGHT: j= "<<j<<"\n";
}
getch();
return 0;
}


Saved as EXECP.CPP.

[weaknessforcats]

You are using iostream.h which is the 1998 version of C++. Very old. In those days many compilers did not have exception handling turned on by default. You might look in your project properties for a switch to enable exception handling.