On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go about this? > > Thanks, John.
The C preprocessor has a __LINE__ directive that is replaced by the line number. You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it for my Fortran codes:) $echo '__LINE__' | cpp -P 1 (-P prevents the output of weird stuff for gcc ) HTH, Romain -- Qui donne au pauvre prĂȘte a Dieu. Victor Hugo, Les Voix intĂ©rieures