.. _unmatched-']':

Unmatched ']'
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Description
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PHP has encountered a closing parenthesis, but has no related opening parenthesis.

In more complex situations, there might be opening and closing parenthesis: this error reports that there are more closing ones than opening. Eventually, some will not have a matching bracket.

Inside double-quoted strings, the unmatched closing brackets are ignored, and used as literal value.

Example
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.. code-block:: php

   <?php
   
   $a[1 + 2 = 3;
   
   // One too many parenthesis
   if (in_array(foo(), array()))) { doSomething(); }
   
   ?>

Solutions
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+ Remove the closing curly bracket.
+ Add an opening closing curly bracket.

Related Error Messages
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+ :ref:`unclosed-'('`
+ :ref:`unmatched-'}'`
+ :ref:`unmatched-')'`
+ :ref:`unclosed-'('-does-not-match-']'`
+ :ref:`syntax-error,-unexpected-string-content`