Question: I am trying to send email invitations with CakePHP (2.3.6) where a User enters a comma separated list of email addresses into an input field.

Currently, I can send emails without an issue as long as there is no invalid email address. However, I tried adding a Try/Catch to catch errors if there was a bad email, but my code is never hitting the catch.

Here is what I have

```
try {
            if($Email->send()) {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Email successfully sent'), 'flash/success');
            } else {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Could not invite guests. Please, try again.'), 'flash/error');
                $this->redirect($this->referer());
            }
        } catch(Exception $e) {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('Could not invite guests. Probably a bad email. Please, try again.'), 'flash/error');
            $this->redirect($this->referer());
        }
        $this->redirect($this->referer());

```

When I enter an invalid email with debugging on, I get the following error:

> 
> Invalid email: "foo"
>  Error: An Internal Error Has Occurred.
> 
> 
> 

And when debugging is off:

> 
> An Internal Error Has Occurred.
> 
> 
> 

I assumed there is something wrong with my Try / Catch, but it looks right to me. Is there some other method I should be going through to catch CakePHP errors?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer: 
You can try something like this:

```
var postcode = 'AA1 2BB';
var postcodePrefix =postcode.split(/[0-9]/)[0];

```
```
var m = postcode.match(/([^\d]*)/);
if (m) {
   var prefix = m[0];
}

```