Feature #9: Validate Program Brackets
Understand how compilers validate balanced brackets including braces, parentheses, and square brackets by using a stack data structure. Learn to check program validity for nested and complex code structures, enhancing your ability to analyze and debug code during compilation.
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Description
A compiler verifies multiple things during a specific language compilation. Sometimes, things get complex when new features are introduced in programming languages. For instance, consider the anonymous functions in JavaScript. Couple these with asynchronous calls, and functions nested inside functions, and things get even more complicated.
The compiler processes a piece of code and removes the line breaks, which leaves behind a string containing code with possibly nested braces, parentheses, and square brackets. Then, we take this string as input and validate that the braces, square brackets, and parentheses are all perfectly matched. The compiler verifies the brackets’ order to ...