ofstream exception handling

Question

Deliberately I'm having this method which writes into a file, so I tried to handle the exception of the possiblity that I'm writing into a closed file:

void printMe(ofstream& file)
{
        try
        {
            file << "\t"+m_Type+"\t"+m_Id";"+"\n";
        }
        catch (std::exception &e)
        {
            cout << "exception !! " << endl ;
        }
};

But apparently std::exception is not the appropriate exception for a closed file error because I deliberately tried to use this method on an already closed file but my "exception !! " comment was not generated.

So what exception should I have written ??

Answer 1

consider following:

void printMe(ofstream& file)
{
        file.exceptions(std::ofstream::badbit | std::ofstream::failbit);
        try
        {
            file << "\t"+m_Type+"\t"+m_Id";"+"\n";
        }
        catch (std::ofstream::failure &e) 
        {
            std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
        }
};