Provided by: hxtools_20170430-1_amd64 
Name
checkbrack — check parenthesis and bracket count
Syntax
checkbrack [-p] file...
Description
Displays each line of the file(s), together with their open bracket count that is reached at the end of
line. Particularly, it allows you to find missing closing brackets. This is especially helpful because
the Perl interpreter for example has problems telling you where exactly something went wrong.
Options
-p Enable Perl/PHP mode, that is, do not consider presence $(, $), $[ and $] of a bracket imbalance.
Example
$ checkbrack /usr/lib/hxtools/bin/checkbrack | less -S
# () [] {}
13 0 0 1 foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
14 0 0 1 if (!-f $file) { next; }
15 0 0 1 print "Displaying $file...0;
16 0 0 2 if (!open(IN, "< $file")) {
17 0 0 2 print "Error opening $file: $!0;
18 0 0 2 next;
19 0 0 1 }
The numbers at the front are: line number, number of unclosed left parentheses, number of unclosed left
square brackets and number of unclosed left square braces.
At the end of line 19, we would need to close one more brace to make it syntactically valid code.
The interesting thing of this, that if GCC, Perl or whatever outputs an error and you do not figure out
what it means — that is often the case with missing braces — run checkbrack on the source file, skip to
the end, and watch the brace counts.
Scroll up until the brace counts seem normal (i.e. 0 open braces) at outside any function.
See also
hxtools(7)