[erlang-questions] How to get the line number of current executable code?

[Richard Carlsson]

Mats Cronqvist wrote:
>  it is not true that the only way to inspect the stack is by forcing an
> exception.
> 
>  i'm too lazy to write actual code, but try this in the shell;
> 
> (r12@REDACTED)41> {_,BT}=erlang:process_info(self(),backtrace).
> (r12@REDACTED)42> S=fun(B,{_,[_,{F,L}|_]})->
> <<_:F/binary,R:L/binary,_/binary>> =B, R end.
> (r12@REDACTED)43> S(BT,re:run(BT,"Return
> addr\\s[0-9a-z]+\\s\\(([^\\s]*)")).
> <<"erl_eval:expr/5">>

Ugh! I didn't know that flag to process_info existed, but I'm happy to
see that Mats' talent for sniffing out the dark corners of Erlang and
using them for unspeakable deeds is as strong as ever.

    /Richard