Editing Line number (section)

==Line numbers and syntax errors==
If a programmer introduces a [[syntax error]] into a program, the [[compiler]] (or [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]]) will inform the programmer that the attempt to compile (or execute) failed at the given line number. This simplifies the job of finding the error immensely for the programmer.

The use of line numbers to describe the location of errors remains standard in modern programming tools, even though line numbers are never required to be manually specified. It is a simple matter for a program to count the [[newline]]s in a [[source file]] and display an automatically generated line number as the location of the error. In [[Integrated development environment|IDEs]] such as [[Microsoft Visual Studio]], Eclipse or [[Xcode]], in which the compiler is usually integrated with the text editor, the programmer can even [[double-click]] on an error and be taken directly to the line containing that error.