The finally Block

The finally block can be used to execute some common code after any of the try-catch blocks used to handle a series of different exceptions in the code. Going back to our example where we tried to open a non-existing file, a modified version of it including a finally statement would look like the following:

Example12.java

11         try {
12             // provoke an exception
13             lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("readme.txt"));
14         } catch (NoSuchFileException fe) {
15             System.out.println("Exception: File Not Found");
16         } catch (IOException ioe) {
17    ...