hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> ...
> I have also (mostly) trained myself to type the opening AND closing parts first,
> and then fill in the space between.

very good practice/advice.  fwiw, a suitable editor helps, for instance using
'vim' makes jumping between opening and closing brace/parenthesis/bracket a
single (shifted) key press.


> ...
> Maybe someone can suggest a command-line script to grep opening and closing
> parentheses and give a count.

not totally what you're after, you only get the line count of occurrence, but,
in practice, the opening/closing counts should be the same.  (no time to write a
script, sorry :-))

  $ grep -ce '[{]' myscene.pov
  $ grep -ce '[}]' myscene.pov


> Might be able to paste it into a spreadsheet and get a count that way.

do you use 'sc(1)' ?


regards, jr.

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