Try/Return/Catch question

Question

The tutorial says no code is allowed between try and catch blocks, but one of the examples given has a return statement between try and catch blocks.
Why is this ( [one of the answers from the tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/QandE/answers.html] ) OK?
public static void cat(File file) {
RandomAccessFile input = null;
String line = null;
try {
input = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
return; //<--- Why is this code legal?
} catch(FileNotFoundException fnf) {
System.err.format("File: %s not found%n", file);
} catch(IOException e) {
System.err.println(e.toString());
} finally {
if (input != null) {
try {
input.close();
} catch(IOException io) {
Just want to understand the unstated exception to these cases.
Thanks,
David Yorke
FNG

Answer 1

You're reading it wrong.
try {
  input = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
  while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println(line);
  } // end of while loop
  return; //<--- Why is this code legal?
  // legal because it's still inside the try block
}  // end of try block
catch(FileNotFoundException fnf) {
  System.err.format("File: %s not found%n", file);
catch(IOException e) {
  System.err.println(e.toString());
finally {
  if (input != null) {
    try {
      input.close();
    catch(IOException io) {
}