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

Uri Guttman <uri-X/[email protected]> Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:27:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl-mongers.boston
Organization Perl Hunter
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On 10/25/19 12:22 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
> my understanding (to be corrected by greg) is that an error in evaled 
> perl code reports the line number in that code. he wants the line 
> number of the eval call itself. he can use __LINE__ to get that when 
> he checks the eval for any errors in the slurped in code.

another idea:

use carp to report the error (or one of the carp subs). check the eval 
for an error and carp $@. it should report the current line number of 
the eval.

uri