How to return a value from try, catch, and finally?

To return a value when using try/catch you can use a temporary variable, e.g.

public static double add(String[] values) {
    double sum = 0.0;
    try {
        int length = values.length;
        double arrayValues[] = new double[length];
        for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            arrayValues[i] = Double.parseDouble(values[i]);
            sum += arrayValues[i];
        }
    } catch(NumberFormatException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch(RangeException e) {
        throw e;
    } finally {
        System.out.println("Thank you for using the program!");
    }
    return sum;
}

Else you need to have a return in every execution path (try block or catch block) that has no throw.

Here is another example that return's a boolean value using try/catch.

private boolean doSomeThing(int index){
    try {
        if(index%2==0) 
            return true; 
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage()); 
    }finally {
        System.out.println("Finally!!! ;) ");
    }
    return false; 
}

It is because you are in a try statement. Since there could be an error, sum might not get initialized, so put your return statement in the finally block, that way it will for sure be returned.

Make sure that you initialize sum outside the try/catch/finally so that it is in scope.