throw "some message"

catch {
access thrown text how exactly?
}

Not a complicated thing - pretty straight forward everywhere you see try / catch / throw - but not for MS. On the page that claims to give all the answers this one small commonly used detail is omitted. I grant it may be embedded somewhere in the text - but it is the age old gripe - make me read pages and pages of text to find that one small thing I need which is not that an uncommon request.

A simple
try {
throw "Oops"
} catch {
Write-Host $Error[0]
}

Would have cleared this up nicely - but not a mention of it on the page - but this is the page that tells us EVERYTHING we need to know about try / catch / throw

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