Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't answer my question. As I thought I was careful to explain, I know the error location, but I need to determine the name of the file handle associated with the value in $.. And as a library that doesn't do file IO, I have no clue what the file might be.

There's got to be a better way than: 
my $msg = " at yourbadscript line your mistake";
if( defined $. ) {
    local $@ = '';
    eval {
            die;
    };
    if($@ =~ /^Died at .*(, <.*?> line \d+).$/ ) {
        $msg .= $1;
    }
}
$msg .= ".\n";
die $msg;

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In reply to Re^2: How do I replicate die's magic with $. ? by tlhackque
in thread How do I replicate die's magic with $. ? by tlhackque

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