Braces and brackets - CodeProject

Options for Parentheses

Option 1: Spaces between inside and outside the parentheses.

if ( something )
...

Option 2: Spaces outside parentheses, no space inside.

if (something)
...

Option 3: Spaces inside parentheses, no space outside.

if( something )
...

Option 4: No white space.

if(something)
...

Options for braces

Option 1: Braces starting on control line.

if (something) {
  // statements
}

Option 2: Braces starting on line under control line, non-indented.

if (something) 
{
    // statements
}

Option 3: Braces starting on line under control line, indented.

if (something) 
    {
    // statements
    }

Option 4: Braces starting on control line, closing brace indented.

if (something) {
    // statements
    }

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Chris is the Co-founder, Administrator, Architect, Chief Editor and Shameless Hack who wrote and runs The Code Project. He's been programming since 1988 while pretending to be, in various guises, an astrophysicist, mathematician, physicist, hydrologist, geomorphologist, defence intelligence researcher and then, when all that got a bit rough on the nerves, a web developer. He is a Microsoft Visual C++ MVP both globally and for Canada locally.

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Chris was born and bred in Australia but splits his time between Toronto and Melbourne, depending on the weather. For relaxation he is into road cycling, snowboarding, rock climbing, and storm chasing.

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