What is the most efficient way to find missing semicolons in VS with C++?
- by Dr. Monkey
What are the best strategies for finding that missing semicolon that's causing the error? Are there automated tools that might help.
I'm currently using Visual Studio 2008, but general strategies for any environment would be interesting and more broadly useful.
Background:
Presently I have a particularly elusive missing semicolon (or brace) in a C++ program that is causing a C2143 error. My header file dependencies are fairly straightforward, but still I can't seem to find the problem. Rather than post my code and play Where's Wally (or Waldo, depending on where you're from) I thought it would be more useful to get some good strategies that can be applied in this and similar situations.
As a side-question: the C2143 error is showing up in the first line of the first method declaration (i.e. the method's return type) in a .cpp file that includes only its associated .h file. Would anything other than semicolons or braces lead to this behaviour?
