How can I determine the current line number in JavaScript?

Question

Does JavaScript have a mechanism for determining the line number of the currently executing statement (and if so, what is it)?

Answer 1

A bit more portable between different browsers and browser versions (should work in Firefox, Chrome and IE10+):

function ln() {
  var e = new Error();
  if (!e.stack) try {
    // IE requires the Error to actually be throw or else the Error's 'stack'
    // property is undefined.
    throw e;
  } catch (e) {
    if (!e.stack) {
      return 0; // IE < 10, likely
    }
  }
  var stack = e.stack.toString().split(/\r\n|\n/);
  // We want our caller's frame. It's index into |stack| depends on the
  // browser and browser version, so we need to search for the second frame:
  var frameRE = /:(\d+):(?:\d+)[^\d]*$/;
  do {
    var frame = stack.shift();
  } while (!frameRE.exec(frame) && stack.length);
  return frameRE.exec(stack.shift())[1];
}