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title: "12 PLI Phrases to Handle Program Errors"
description: "Error handling standard phrases being used in almost all the PLI programs. Read more."
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date: 2016-03-08
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# 12 PLI Phrases to Handle Program Errors

Below are the PLI phrases that useful to handle errors.

## [Error Handling](https://srinimf.com/2011/10/17/pli-handling-conditional-erros/) Reserved Words

OVERFLOW ==>exponent overflow
UNDERFLOW ==>exponent underflow
FIXEDOVERFLOW ==>fixed-point overflow
SIZE ==>fixed-point overflow
ZERODIVIDE ==> division by zero
SUBSCRIPTRANGE ==> subscript bound error
STRINGRANGE ==> substring error
STRINGSIZE ==> truncation of a string
ENDFILE ==> end of file
ENDPAGE ==> end of page
ATTENTION ==> request from keyboard

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