is there a simple way get the current line number of processed file?

From: zhao_bingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bingfeng Zhao)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:31:40 +0800

To parse a regular text file, I should report the line number of parsed file when error occured. I want to know whether perl provide a shortcut way or magic '$?' indicate this. I must counting myself if not.

Thanks in advance

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