# No line number for: syntax: unexpected ")"
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604 "2020-08-27T02:25:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@jleman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jleman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/1 "2020-08-27T02:25:08Z")
Is there a way to get syntax messages like this to show a line number?
syntax: unexpected “)”
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### Author:  [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/2 "2020-08-27T02:37:24Z")
from a technical point of view, no, because you can’t be sure which line is actually “missing” a `)`, but I agree this is very annoying
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/3 "2020-08-27T05:41:18Z")
Presumably it could at least show the line number for the unmatched `(`?
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/4 "2020-08-27T05:41:52Z")
Actually if it’s an unexpected `)` then it is known on which line that occurs.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/5 "2020-08-27T10:02:30Z")
It is shown for me in the stacktrace in Julia 1.5:
```julia
shell> cat /tmp/tmp.jl
(1+2))
julia> include("/tmp/tmp.jl");
ERROR: LoadError: syntax: extra token ")" after end of expression
Stacktrace:
[1] top-level scope at /tmp/tmp.jl:1
[2] include(::String) at ./client.jl:457
[3] top-level scope at REPL[72]:1
in expression starting at /tmp/tmp.jl:1
```
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### Author:  [@jleman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jleman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/6 "2020-08-27T16:40:41Z")
I’m using 1.4.2. Maybe its a Jupyter thing? Below is my output. Other errors are flagged with a line number in the stacktrace, but extra ( or [ are not.
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/7 "2020-08-27T16:58:55Z")
I have also perceived this behavior, and it is very annoying.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/8 "2020-08-27T17:12:25Z")
Yes, perhaps open an issue for Jupyter.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/10 "2020-09-02T18:01:21Z")
> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
>
> Yes, perhaps open an issue for Jupyter.
It’s already fixed if you use IJulia with Julia 1.5:
With previous Julia versions, we had to re-implement `include_string` in order to do the soft-scoping transformation, and lost some line-number information in the process.
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### Author:  [@jleman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jleman)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-line-number-for-syntax-unexpected/45604/11 "2020-09-02T18:03:55Z")
Thanks. I’ll be upgrading today.