How do you search for the top bracket in an IF statement?

Question

Ok, i have to fix somebody else's code, and basically on line 892 there's an ELSE/IF statement, but i can't find the original IF statement! The inconsistent nesting is making this extremely hard.

I've trailed up the code to see if i can find the original but i can't. Does anybody have any ideas how i can search for the originating IF statement besides scrolling with the mouse?

By the way, i'm using Eclipse. Thanks :)

Answer 1

Why don't you press ctrl-f to format the code and then you should be able to line up the if/else statement. Also you could turn code folding on and close each set of if/else statements until you find it.

Answer 2

If you put the marker at the end of the closing bracket the starting bracket will get a small gray box around it

Answer 3

If you're using the CDT, Ctrl-Shift-P is "Go to matching bracket". It may also exist in vanilla Eclipse, PyDev, etc...

if(...) { ... } else { ... }

click on the bolded brace above and Ctrl-Shift-P your way to success!