# Does Kotlin have multi-catch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/does-kotlin-have-multi-catch/486>\
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**Created:** [September 9, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/does-kotlin-have-multi-catch/486 "2014-09-09T09:18:41Z")\
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To mimic multi-catch the else branch should rethrow the exception.

```
try {
    ...
} catch (e: Exception) {
    when(e) {
         is SomeException, is OtherException -> {...}
         else -> throw e
    }
}

```

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