Re^2: How do I find the missing curly brace??

perltidy is a good suggestion. Similarly, vim or some other editor that does highlighting or highlights the start/end of the current BLOCK, might be useful. I wonder if perlcritic would similarly be useful? And maybe as a final stab, perl -c.

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Re^3: How do I find the missing curly brace??
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 31, 2024 at 11:41 UTC

perl -c

But probably he can do a binary search by only compiling the first half of the source.

If it works add a quarter, otherwise subtract one.

And so on, till he identified the problem...

I think he will need to do the splitting manually tho, and can't rely on an automatic bisect.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^4: How do I find the missing curly brace??

by pfaut (Priest) on May 07, 2025 at 19:07 UTC

But probably he can do a binary search by only compiling the first half of the source.

If it works add a quarter, otherwise subtract one.

You can do this easily by inserting '__END__' after a subroutine, then moving it up or down a few subroutines based on whether perl -c reported any errors.

90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒

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