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    Default finally clause

    Hey guys, I have a few doubts about the finally clause in exception handling.

    What exactly does it do? Does it need to have try and catch blocks before it in order to work?

    I just can't seem to understand the use of it or a good example.

    Thanks a lot.


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    Default Re: finally clause

    Finally is generally used for clean-up code you want to run irregardless of if an exception is thrown or not, for example closing IO streams. You do need a try block, but you don't need any catch clauses to have a finally block (this allows exceptions to propagate while still running cleanup code).

    void readFile(BufferedReader reader) throws IOException
    {
    	try
    	{
    		// read data
    	}
    	finally
    	{
    		System.out.println("done reading data");
    		reader.close();
    	}
    }

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    Default Re: finally clause

    What about that variable "reader" ? What can I do with it?

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