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title	id	weight	draft	author
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NAME

caller

get the name and line number of the calling routine

local log = require "lib/dtutils.log"
result = log.caller(level)

level - number - the number of stack levels to go down to retrieve the caller routine information

caller gets the name and line number of the calling routine and returns it

result - string - the name and line number of the calling function or 'callback: ' if the attempt to get the caller returns nil