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This compliant solution uses a try-with-resources statement which will guarantee that both br and bw are closed, irrespective regardless of any exceptions being potentially thrown during the close operations.
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This noncompliant code example uses an ordinary try-finally block to try to close a resource. However, if there is an exception thrown both during the processing of the input and another exception thrown when closing the Bufferedreader br, then the exception thrown as a result of processing the input will be lost, and important information about that exceptional circumstance may be missed.
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