When you have finished writing the transformation code associated with a destination attribute, you can perform a limited syntax check on the code. By checking as you proceed, you reduce debugging time required at the end of the map development process. You can check attribute code using the technique of finding unmatched delimiters.
Map Designer provides the Check for Unmatched Delimiters feature to help you resolve one of the errors in a program that is most difficult to identify. This feature checks for unmatched delimiters in an attribute's transformation code. Map Designer checks for these paired tokens: ( ), [ ], { }, " ", and ' '.
Perform the following steps to do a syntax check on an attribute's transformation code:
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