I need to die from deep within a library. And I need to generate my own ' at script line n, <fh> line m.' suffix because die's idea of script/line will not be helpful to the user.

$. provides the line number of the last touched file. (or is undef is there is no such file).

Question: How can I determine the file handle name of the corresponding (last touched) file? (so I can generate ", <HISFH> line n") I haven't found this documented.

I suppose I could do an eval die "fake" and parse the result from $@, but that seems rather heavy-handed...is there a sensible alternative?

Thanks

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In reply to How do I replicate die's magic with $. ? by tlhackque

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