Get name of exception?

Question

Hi!
Is there a way to see exactly the name of the exception which is raised in a procedure?
Something like:
exception when others then
      Dbms_Output.Put_Line ('The exception raised was: '|| XXXXXXXXXXX );
end;

Answer 1

First of all, you could read the faq of this forum.
Anyway, you look like a new user, so after reading the good links posted by Troll35 and Kim, you could start thinking about these simple concepts:
** Every exception has an error code and a description.*
** Not every exception has a name associated with it*.
PL/SQL named and un-named/anonymous exceptions
1 Named exception
- 1.1 System named exceptions also called predefined exceptions and linked by Troll35
- 2.2 Others Named  exceptions
- Named by Oracle in one of its build-in packages.
- Named by developer in packages.
The most exceptions are un-named, and have only an error code and a message.
The code is hard to maintain if you don't associate a name to an exception.
You can associate a name with an error code with the pragma "*PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INI*T"
ExceptionName  EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (ExceptionName  , integer);-----
You already have the links to find out all the details.