Re^2: How do I find the missing curly brace??

[LanX]

consider this convoluted example (Perl would catch this anyway)

sub bla { 
    print "yadda";
    my %hash = {
        foo => 1,
    );
}

the problem is in line 3, but your code will report line 1.

and if you add a # } after a comment in line 2 it won't report anything.