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

On May 27, bingfeng zhao said:

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.

When reading from a filehandle, the $. variable holds the current line number.

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