Bracket matching

<h2 id="implementations">Implementations</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Vim_(text_editor)/JXAYMDgt">Vim</a>'s % command does bracket matching,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> and <a href="/facts/NetBeans/9kqvIVFG">NetBeans</a> has bracket matching built-in.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
Bracket matching can also be a tool for code navigation. In <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> C++ 6.0, bracket matching behavior was set to ignore brackets found in comments. In VSC 7.0, its behavior was changed to compute commented brackets.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
IntelliJ IDEA's <a href="/facts/Ruby_on_Rails/aG5P6uon">Ruby on Rails</a> plugin also enables bracket matching.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> It has been proposed that <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> 5 be modified to facilitate bracket matching.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Excel_2003/Ezal6G75">Microsoft Excel 2003</a> 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.
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<h2 id="example">Example</h2>
<p>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.
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for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    System.out.println(i);
}│

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/All_nearest_smaller_values/a3KhedVt">All nearest smaller values § Applications</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>Norm Matloff's Text-Editor Web Page for Programming Students <a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/ProgEdit/ProgEdit.html#L2314" target="_blank">http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/ProgEdit/ProgEdit.html#L2314</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Overview (Editor Braces Matching)". Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2008-03-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120525034649/http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-editor-bracesmatching/overview-summary.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120525034649/http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-editor-bracesmatching/overview-summary.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Automatic Brace Matching in Visual Studio <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/be94e8aw.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/be94e8aw.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Feedback: braces matching behavior <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=100587" target="_blank">http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=100587</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"IntelliJ IDEA supports Ruby and Ruby on Rails | AjaxLine". Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2008-03-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100922121814/http://ajaxline.com/node/344" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100922121814/http://ajaxline.com/node/344</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Brace-matching for Perl Regular Expressions – perl6 <a href="http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/145.html" target="_blank">http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/145.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Bracket matching