Question

Can two or more ‘try/catch’ statements share a ‘finally’ statement in C#? I am trying to follow a coworker’s code and it’s very sloppy and unexecutable.

Example:

try
{
    Function1()
}
catch { }
try
{
    Function2();
}
catch { }
try
{
    Function3();
}
catch { }
finally
{
    EndFunction();
}

Answer 1

No, each try/catch/finally sequence is a discrete block-level statement. However, each try can have zero, one or more catch clauses followed by an optional finally clause.

Looking at the code, I see no compelling reason it isn’t written as:

try
{
    Function1()
    Function2();
    Function3();
}
finally
{
    EndFunction();
}

As Jordão mentions, empty (uncommented) catch handlers are a terrible practice. And there’s no reason for splitting out the various function calls into separate try blocks if you want them all handled by the same finally block.