how to catch error laravel code example

Example 1: laravel throw function

public function isValid($value)
{
    try {
        // Validate the value...
    } catch (Throwable $e) {
        report($e);

        return false;
    }
}

Example 2: how to catch query exception in laravel 8

try { 
  $results = \DB::connection("example")
    ->select(\DB::raw("SELECT * FROM unknown_table"))
    ->first(); 
    // Closures include ->first(), ->get(), ->pluck(), etc.
} catch(\Illuminate\Database\QueryException $ex){ 
  dd($ex->getMessage()); 
  // Note any method of class PDOException can be called on $ex.
}