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#line

Preprocessor directive to set the current line number and file name

Syntax

#line number [ "name" ]

Parameters

• number

Description

Informs the compiler of a change in line number and file name and updates the __FILE__ and __LINE__ macro values accordingly.

Both compile time messages and run-time messages are affected by this directive.

This directive allows other programs to generate source code for the FreeBASIC compiler and have it return warning and/or error messages that refer to the original source used by the other program.

Remarks

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

• __FILE__
• __LINE__

Examples

#line 155 "outside.src"

Error 1000

'' Output is:

'' Aborting due to runtime error 1000 at line 157 of outside.src()

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