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

On 10/25/19 9:17 PM, Greg London wrote:
> ahh...  #line   that's it!
>
>
> $. wouldn't work for me becuase the filehandle is long since
> closed by the time I do the eval(), so it will come back 0
>
> I'll have to prepend #line to the eval string
> and figure out the line number to put there,
> but that'll make these scripts I'm dealing with a whole lot
> easier to use.
that doesn't make sense to me. i think you need __LINE__ . #line will 
set the line number to whatever you want. if you insert more lines 
before the eval, then it will be off. __LINE__ is correctly set to the 
current line number by the compiler.

uri