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- DelimiterFlashTime
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- Menu Items
- Why the Coloring?
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- DelimiterFlashTime
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- Why the Coloring?
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is an option for selections that specifies whether an opening delimiter will match only its respective closing delimiter or any closing delimiter.


DelimiterMatching
is an option for selections that specifies whether an opening delimiter will match only its respective closing delimiter or any closing delimiter.
Details

- With the default setting DelimiterMatching->All, all delimiters such as {, [, or ( must be matched with an opposite delimiter of the same type. For example, the expression (a,b] would be considered illegal but (a,b) and [a,b] would both be allowed. Unmatched delimiters are typically displayed in a different style; the style is specified by AutoStyleOptions.
- With the setting DelimiterMatching->None, a delimiter can be matched with an opposite delimiter of any type. Hence, the expression (a,b] would be considered legal.
History
Introduced in 1999 (4.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1999), DelimiterMatching, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DelimiterMatching.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1999. "DelimiterMatching." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DelimiterMatching.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1999). DelimiterMatching. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DelimiterMatching.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_delimitermatching, author="Wolfram Research", title="{DelimiterMatching}", year="1999", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DelimiterMatching.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_delimitermatching, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={DelimiterMatching}, year={1999}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DelimiterMatching.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}