getting line number of a searched pattern

Hi,

In this kind of buff :

foonothing
foobar
bar
foo << Here is my cursor


I would like to know the linenumber of pattern foonothing with backward search and not moving my cursor position so don't use call search(pattern, 'bn')

Thanks

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