C# try-catch-else

Catch a specific class of exceptions

try
{
    reader = new StreamReader(path);
    string line = reader.ReadLine();
    char character = line[30];
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
    // Uh oh something went wrong with I/O
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    // Uh oh something else went wrong
    throw; // unless you're very sure what you're doing here.
}

The second catch is optional, of course. And since you don’t know what happened, swallowing this most general exception is very dangerous.