NAME

tclCheck - check bracket nesting for tcl programs.

SYNOPSIS

tclCheck [-cgijlmqs] [filename]...

DESCRIPTION

tclCheck does a simple bracket nesting check on tcl programs to help you find missing or extra brackets. The program will often detect things that are very likely typing errors but which the tcl interpreter silently accepts. However, simple bracket matching is not all that useful for finding missing brackets and so the program also provides various ways of rpinting out the bracket "skeleton" of a program. This gives a line numbered listing showing where all the brackets occur in the program. It is should be pretty easy to spot errors from this.

OPTIONS

-c: By default tclCheck attempts to recognise comments so as to permit unmatching brackets in them. This flag turns this behaviour off.
-e: This flag enables checking for lines that have a \ followed by spaces or tabs at their end. By default this test is not carried out.
-g: By default tclCheck pops its stack of brackets to a find a match with } > ] > ). This flag turns this off.
-i: This flag stops the printing of error messages beginning "Inside a string".
-j: Generates a compressed skeleton print out where indentation is ignored when matching brackets (see -l).
-l: Generates a compressed skeleton output where nested matching lines are paired up and removed. Matching includes any indentation.
-m: Removes from the skeleton print out bracket pairs that match up directly on lines.
-q: Do not generate any output unless exceptions are detected.
-s: Generate a output of the bracket skeleton of the whole program.
-t: tiger mode - this will flag any single " that occur in places where tcl would not detect the start of a string. By default this is turned off, but it can be very useful for tracking down some hard to find problems.

BUGS

Bracket matching in tcl is an inexact science and the program takes a very conservative view so valid structures will sometimes be flagged -- This is a feature not a bug!