How does one identify the current line being evaluated during execution?

I would like to know if there is a command in MatLab that returns the value of the line number on which it has been executed.

For example:

1
2  for i = 1:10
3      % some line of code
4      currentLine = ?;
5  end
6
7
8
9

Where "?" is some MatLab command or function (if it exists) that identifies the line on which "?" is called, in this case line number 4.

[James Van Zandt]

I suggest:

function line=currentline
s=dbstack;
line=s(2).line;

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Look at the help for dbstop

For example:

 dbstop in FILESPEC at SUBFUN

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I don't know why you need the number. You can issue the "echo on" command and it will spit out the current line being executed to the command window, without a line number though. When you have functions and other m-files, the concept of line number becomes not so clear.

[Haim]

1. You need the line number for debugging a very heavy undocumented matlab simulation code, since puting comments moves the old lines to unknown new place.
2. you can simply add the following

lstr = struct(dbstack).line ; % get line number for debugging

str= ['(' num2str(lstr) ') function xxx, <any description string>']; % identify function with the code line number

disp(str);

[Image Analyst]

Where would you put that. He says he wants "the line number on which it has been executed." which, to me, means he has an existing script that he want to run and somewhere (command window perhaps) he wants to run the file and then have every line printed somewhere with it's line number as it's being executed. Of course only some of the lines in the program get executed, and some (like in a loop) might get executed very many times. I don't see how your code will do that. Let's say my script is

a=10
b=5
if b > 10
    fprintf('big b\n')
else
    fprintf('small b\n');
end
for k = 1 : 3
    a = a+1
end

Some of those lines get executed one or more times and some don't get executed at all. How would you, without altering the original program of course, get only the line of code that actually got executed to appear somewhere with their line number prefixed?

Answer 3

[Pruthvi G]

For finding current line handle

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/70643-gclh-get-handle-of-current-line

Answer 4

[Geoffrey May]

In case you are like me and trying to programmatically do a dbstop that will adjust as you add lines above it:

stack = dbstack();
stopText = strsplit(sprintf('in %s at %d', stack.name, stack.line + 3));
dbstop(stopText{:});
stopHere = 1;

This will add a breakpoint at the last line of the block, provided that it stays 3 lines below the call to dbstack().