Re: Exception handling?

In the constructor of a class I run various test to check that the input
data is valid, else I throw an exception:

...
...
My Test(
          int const k
        , int const h
        , U const & u
        , U const & v
        , P const & c
        )
      {

    int controlnum = c.size() * c[0].size();
    int basisnum = (u() - k) * (v.size() - h);

        if(k<= 0 || h<=0)
          throw std::invalid_argument("k h must be greater than=

        if(uknots.size() <= 0)
          throw std::invalid_argument("u was empty");

        if(vknots.size() <= 0)
          throw std::invalid_argument("v was empty");

        if(controls.size() <= 0)
          throw std::invalid_argument("c was empty");
...
...
      }

The first thing that needs to be done is to catch the exceptions so the
error messages gets printed to the user. But how do I make sure the right
message is printed, do I make some sort of exception switch?