2006/7/10, Joerg Bruehe <joerg@stripped>:
> Hi Mike, all!
>
>
> mos wrote:
> > 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 cannot give a list of editors that will do it,
> but I know that "vim" ("vi improved") does it.
> It will also do syntax highlighting, but I do not know whether it knows
> about SQL already or would need an additional SQL syntax description.
>
In vim, you can find matching parenthesis, with the "%" shorcut. Put
the cursor on one parenthesis, hit %, hop you jump to the
corresponding opening/closing parenthesis. (definitely a must-have for
certain language).
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