Can I use an Else statement after a Try Catch?

[Food 4 Thought]

I've written a simple function that's meant to check whether files are open. In it I've written a simple exception, but should the exception throw nothing, should I put an else statement after the catch expression?

/*The function was made a template in order to
work with objects of ofstream, ifstream, and fstream type*/
template<typename f>
bool checkFileOpen(const f& file)
{
     try
     {
          if (!file.is_open())
          {
               throw 1;
          }
     }
     catch (int fileNum)
     {
          std::cout << "Error: File " << fileNum << " not found" << std::endl;
          system("pause");
          return false;
     }

     return true;
}

The Questions:

(1): If the try-catch block were to throw an exception, and the return false; command is reached, will the function keep running and end up returning true? Or will it stop there and carry on wherever it was called?

(2): Is it possible to put a simple else statement after the catch block, expecting that what was within the else statement would execute if no exception was thrown?

[AbstractionAnon]

1) return false will cause the function to exit immediately.

2) No. The only place you could place an else statement is after line 11.