1. Implementations

2. Example

3. References

Brace matching, also known as bracket matching or parentheses matching, is a syntax highlighting feature of certain text editors and integrated development environments that highlights matching sets of braces (square brackets, curly brackets, or parentheses) in languages such as Java and C++ that use them. The purpose is to help the programmer navigate through the code and also spot any improper matching, which would cause the program to not compile or malfunction. If a closing brace is left out, for instance, the compiler will not know that the end of a block of code has been reached. Brace matching is particularly useful when many nested if statements, program loops, etc. are involved.

Implementations

Brace matching can also be a tool for code navigation. In Visual Studio^[3] C++ 6.0, brace matching behavior was set to ignore braces found in comments. In VSC 7.0, its behavior was changed to compute commented braces.^[4]

IntelliJ IDEA's Ruby on Rails plugin also enables braces matching.^[5] It has been proposed that Perl 5 be modified to facilitate braces matching.^[6] The Microsoft Excel 2003 formula bar has parentheses matching. Its implementation shows all the pairs of parentheses as different colors, so it is possible to easily analyze them all at once.

Example

In this example, the user has just typed the closing curly brace '}' defining a code block, and that brace and its corresponding opening brace are both highlighted.

References

• The Streetsweeper, Vol. 2 - The Pain from the Game
• The Street That Cut Everything
• The Street (TV series)
• The Street (U.S. TV series)
• The Streetwalker
• The St. Regis Hotel
• The St. Regis New York
• The St. Regis Washington, D.C.
• The Streisand Effect
• The Strength and Agility of Insects
• The Stretch (novel)
• The Strid
• The Strike (film)
• The Striker
• The Striker (Clive Cussler)
• The Striker with Number 9
• The Striking Viking Story Pirates
• The Stringless Violin
• The String Quartets (John Zorn album)
• The Strip (1951 film)
• The Strip (disambiguation)
• The Strip Project
• The Strip (The O.C. episode)
• The Strip (US TV series)
• The Strobe