At 01:48 PM 7/9/2006, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "mos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: How to look for balanced parenthesis?
I have a complicated SQL statement with around a dozen
"if(this,val1,val2)" embedded in it and there are even nested If clauses.
I'm getting syntax errors because I'm not balancing the "( )" properly.
Is there any free software out there for Windows that I can copy and
paste the SQL statement into that will show me where the parenthesis are
unbalanced? It doesn't have to know about SQL, I just to either highlight
the parenthesis range or find out when the parenthesis become out of sync.
I'm going to give you one answer that you almost certainly won't like:
Eclipse. Eclipse is an IDE for developing programs, especially Java, and
it has a parenthesis matcher which also handles braces and square
brackets. Installing Eclipse solely for the bracket matcher is a bit like
using atomic weapons to kill mosquitos but if you were going to develop
applications anyway and wanted a great IDE, it might be the answer to your
problem. It's free by the way. You can get it at http://eclipse.org.
That's ok, our provincial bird is the mosquito and we need all the weapons
we can get.<bg>
I was going to try eclipse anyways for another project I'm going to start.
Some people like eclipse, others hate it because it crashes a lot.
Another editor that can also match brackets is PFE, Programmer's File
Editor. It's also free and is a good editor. You can find it many places,
including http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.htm. It
only runs on Windows though.
Another decent little editor that has the feature is TextPad. It's also
free and can be found at http://www.textpad.com/.
There are probably more basic editors out there that have bracket matchers
but I can't name any for you. I'm not even sure what the feature you want
is supposed to be called: "bracket matcher", "parenthesis balancer", or
whatever. It's getting to be a pretty standard feature in editors in
recent years, although it doesn't seem to be in NotePad or WordPad.
Thanks for the list of editors. I'm surprised my version of Notetab pro
doesn't have bracket matching. I may need to upgrade.
Mike
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