That's very foriegn to me. Say for instance I have a large program that has multiple files to open and I mistype a filename, either when I declare in some variable somewhere or even if I just used it in the open call itself. So now if I don't have a line number and the filename it spit back out was useless I have to go through the entire program to find where I made such a mistake. Even if its a variable that was declared elsewhere, the line number at least gives me a place to start. I may have forgotten the variable name I used, etc.

For me an even more common use would be if a SQL query failed. Its extremely easy to have a syntax error in query, and it won't get caught until runtime. Sure I could print out the whole query and look for it, but a line number seems so much easier: fire up 'vim' <line-number> shift-G and there's the error.

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In reply to Re: Re: How to get die() to stop printing a line number? by cfreak
in thread How to get die() to stop printing a line number? by Anonymous Monk

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