Why use Finally in Try … Catch

Question

I see that the Finally in Try .. Catch will always execute after any parts of the execution of the try catch block.

Is it any different to

Answer 1

Catch will not run after any parts of the execution of the try catch block. Catch will only run if an exception is thrown and the catch block can handle that type of exception.

The finally block is the one that will run when the try block is complete. By complete, I mean it finishes normally, or exits in some way (breaks out of a loop, returns from the method, throws an exception, etc.)

If you put the code outside the finally block and an exception is thrown (for example) then the code may not be executed if the exception is not caught, or it is rethrown in the catch block, or an new exception is thrown in the catch block. If you put it inside the finally block then it will be executed.

Basically, the clean up should be put in the finally block.