Re: loadfile and line number

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> 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.

You can provide your own name for the chunk (easier in Lua 5.2
but doable in 5.1). Just choose a name that does not contain that
pattern.

-- Roberto