What Happens if a Try-Catch-Finally Statement Does Not Have a Catch Clause to Handle an Exception That is Thrown within The Body of The Try Statement

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The exception propagates up to the next higher level try-catch statement (if any) or results in the program’s termination.

In Java, a try-catch-finally statement must have either a catch clause or a finally clause (or both). If a try-catch-finally statement does not have a catch clause to handle an exception that is thrown within the body of the try statement, then the code will compile successfully only if there is a finally clause.

If there is no catch clause and no finally clause, the compiler will generate an error. The catch clause is used to catch and handle specific exceptions, while the finally clause is used to define code that will be executed regardless of whether an exception is thrown or not.

Here’s an example:

java
try {
// Code that may throw an exception
} finally {
// Code in the finally block, which will be executed whether an exception is thrown or not
}

In this example, the try block may or may not have a catch block, but it must have a finally block. If you omit both catch and finally blocks, the compiler will generate an error.