Javascript eval() Exception - line number

javascript exception eval node.js v8
DuduAlul picture DuduAlul · Aug 15, 2010 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

In JavaScript I have a var str = ".a long string that contains many lines..." In case of exception that caused by eval(str);

I had like to catch it and print the the line number that caused the exception. (the line internal to str..)

Is it possible?

EDIT As part of the Alligator project (http://github.com/mrohad/Alligator), an application server for JavaScript, I am reading files from the disk and eval() anything that is nested to a scriplet( < ? ? > )

I am running this script outside a browser, using NodeJS (on top of V8).

Answer

Steve Brewer picture Steve Brewer · Aug 15, 2010

Try adding the try/catch to the string instead of around the eval:

var code = 'try{\nvar c = thisFuncIsNotDefined();\n}catch(e){alert(e.lineNumber);}';

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