I am trying to get access to the text I highlighted in red inside my nodejs program. I currently have a try/catch block around the require call, but the stack trace I dump in the catch does not contain the information I am trying to access (namely, the line Number in 'testdebug.js' where the error occurred).

The lines highlighted in red are printed by something in node's internals, apparently. How can I store that string inside of my program? Code is below.

var syntaxError = true;
try {
    debugModule = require('./testdebug.js')
    syntaxError = false;
}
catch(e) {
    console.log(e.stack);
    //there was a syntax error.
}

This guy knows what's up. His module checks the code for parser errors using esprima, and gives a useful object for dissecting them.

https://github.com/substack/node-syntax-error