C# try-catch-else

Question

One thing that has bugged me with exception handling coming from Python to C# is that in C# there doesn\'t appear to be any way of specifying an else clause. For example, in

Answer 1

Catch more specific exceptions.

try {
   reader = new StreamReader(path);
   string line = reader.ReadLine();
   char character = line[30];
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
   // thrown by StreamReader constructor
}
catch(DirectoryNotFoundException e) {
   // thrown by StreamReader constructor
}
catch(IOException e) {
   // some other fatal IO error occured
}

Further, in general, handle the most specific exception possible and avoid handling the base System.Exception.