Re: loadfile and line number

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 11/10/2012 13:17, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> It can't, sorry. The line number is added to the error message deep down
> in the Lua core:
> 	http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/llex.c.html#lexerror
>
> You can extract the line number from the error message with
> 	string.match(message,":(%d+):")

Unfortunately, this method is not robust enough.
If some part of the line in question matches the same pattern ":(%d+):", 
it will be captured instead.

--
Shmuel