Error Trapping : doesn't work

If I do..

trap [System.DivideByZeroException]
{
write-host ("trapped " + $_.Exception.GetType().Name)
continue
}
(1/$null)

it works!. If I do

trap [System.DivideByZeroException]
{
write-host ("trapped " + $_.Exception.GetType().Name)
continue
}
(1/0)

it doesn't . Yet the inner exception description for both are the same. Any
thoughts ?

That happens because the expression 1/0 gets evaluated at compile time.
PowerShell does 'constant expression folding', which roughly means that if
there is an expression with a constant value like 1/0 (both constant values)
the error is caught at compile time instead of runtime.

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Kiron

Thanks for the quick response.

"Kiron" wrote: