Re: How do I find the missing curly brace??

Use perl to find perl errors.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11163431
use warnings;

my @what_lines;

@ARGV = '3raindeermaze.pl'; # FIXME

while( <> )
  {
  for ( split // )
    {
    /\{/ ? push @what_lines, $. :
    /\}/ ? pop @what_lines : 0;
    }
  }
print "line numbers with unmatched { => @what_lines\n";
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Comment out the ARGV line to use your file as the argument to the program.
( I just did that for testing. )

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Re^2: How do I find the missing curly brace?? by LanX (Saint) on Dec 30, 2024 at 18:22 UTC
consider this convoluted example (Perl would catch this anyway) `sub bla { print "yadda"; my %hash = { foo => 1, ); }` [download] the problem is in line 3, but your code will report line 1. and if you add a `# }` after a comment in line 2 it won't report anything. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]