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> hi to all,
> 	First of all, I'm a newbie in OOP programming and ruby so please excuse me
> for my poor language.

	That's okay, newbies welcome.

> Anyway, I'm trying to catch an error without exiting the program,
> i.e.  an equivalent to rescue, but without the exit.
> 
> is it possibile?

	Absolutely.

begin
  # some code that raises an error
  a = 1/0
rescue ZeroDivisionError
  puts "Can't divide by 0... back to math 101 for you..."
end

	And your program should tick along nicely.  Checkout the 
Programming Ruby book: has some nice examples/documentation.  -sc
  

> thank you in advance,
> Marco
> 
> PS: please CC to me the answer because I'm not subscribed to the list, because
> there's high traffic!

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