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

You can have multiple catch clauses, each specific to the type of exception you wish to catch. So, if you only want to catch IOExceptions, then you could change your catch clause to this:

try
{
    reader = new StreamReader(path);
    string line = reader.ReadLine();
    char character = line[30];
}
catch (IOException)
{    
}

Anything other than an IOException would then propagate up the call stack. If you want to also handle other exceptions, then you can add multiple exception clauses, but you must ensure they are added in most specific to most generic order. For example:

try
{
    reader = new StreamReader(path);
    string line = reader.ReadLine();
    char character = line[30];
}
catch (IOException)
{    
}
catch (Exception)
{
}