Structure Matcher

Syntax languages support structure matchers, which provide functionality for locating matching structural text delimiters, such as brackets.

Basic Concepts

Structure matchers are classes implementing IStructureMatcher that can scan through text and tokens to find a pair or set of related text delimiters, most often brackets. Once the language service is implemented for structure matching, SyntaxEditor features such as move to matching bracket and select to matching bracket are automatically supported.

See the Structure Matching topic for details on how to create and work with structure matcher classes.

Registering with a Language

Any object that implements IStructureMatcher can be associated with a syntax language by registering it as an IStructureMatcher service on the language.

This code creates a StructureMatcher object and registers it with the syntax language that is already declared in the language variable:

StructureMatcher matcher = new StructureMatcher();
language.RegisterStructureMatcher(matcher);