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 could write it like:

bool success = false;
try {
    reader = new StreamReader(path);
    success = true;
}
catch(Exception) {
    // Uh oh something went wrong with opening the file for reading
}
finally {
    if(success) {
        string line = reader.ReadLine();    
        char character = line[30];
    }
}