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The finally Clause

• Cleanup needs to occur during normal and exceptional processing
• Example: Close a file
  

  FileReader reader = null;
  try
    {
      reader = new FileReader(name);
      ...
    }
  finally
    {
      if (reader != null) reader.close();
    } 
  
  

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