I set some debugging code, which in part is like this:
my $debug = 0;
if($debug && $debug == 1) {
  OPEN(DEBUG,">>/home/path/logs/debug.txt") or die "Could not Open Fil
+e for appending: $!";
}

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Then I put lines like this:
print DEBUG "Made it to line 3917 where There was an error ['" . $dbh-
+>errstr . "'] in the insert\n" if DEBUG && $debug;

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However, if I update the script, and insert a bunch of lines, my line numbers are all off.
is there a way for my script to know what line it is on, without having to see it in the browser, so I can have it write it to the file?

Thank you, in advance, Perl Monks :)
Richard

In reply to Determining a line number the error occurs on by Anonymous Monk

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