Re: [Boston.pm] Changing line number reported by errors

On 10/25/19 12:03 PM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH via Boston-pm wrote:
> I haven’t tried this, but according to the documentation for $.
> ($INPUT_LINE_NUMBER), you should be able to assign a value to this which
> Perl will use for reporting:
>
>

another idea:

__LINE__ is a compiler generated value of the current line. so you could 
do something like this:

print $@, 'error at line: ', __LINE__ ;

i recall something can be done with # comments to also set a line number 
but i can't find it in the docs. the __LINE__ thing should be enough.

uri

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