Thank you Joel and Bart for the __LINE__ idea. These tools are just what I needed.
I specially like the "caller" method, which I'm going to use as:
sub ln {unshift @_, (caller)[2]; print "@_\n"};
.. . .
ln ".. show $somedata"; # for short diags
Cheers
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:04:18 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>Second is to call a sub, which, through caller(), can determine which line
>it's been called from.
> sub ln {
> return join " ", (caller)[1, 2];
> }
> print ln, " this is line 8";
>-->
> test.pl 8 this is line 8
