To avoid hard-coding any line numbers you can use the "caller" function:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/caller.html

Here's a simple example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
exit main();

sub main
{
    print_error("test1");
    print_error("test2");
    print_error("test3");
    return 0;
}

sub print_error
{
    my ($error) = @_;
    my $line = (caller(0))[2];
    print "line " , $line , ": " , $error , "\n";
}

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This will print:

-bash:perl$ perl caller.pl
line 6: test1
line 7: test2
line 8: test3

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In reply to Re: Improving the Error Handling of my Scripts by elTriberium
in thread Improving the Error Handling of my Scripts by Dru

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