[jira] [Created] (VCL-707) Improve ability to parse vcld.log

["Andy Kurth (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andy Kurth created VCL-707:
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             Summary: Improve ability to parse vcld.log
                 Key: VCL-707
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-707
             Project: VCL
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: vcld (backend)
            Reporter: Andy Kurth
            Assignee: Andy Kurth
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 2.4


The lines in vcld.log are deliminated by a '|' pipe character.  This makes is easy to split up the lines with grep or when imported into a spreadsheed.  There are some problems with the current vcld.log output which causes fields to not appear in the same column in excel if you do a Text to Columns with the '|' deliminator.

For multiline messages, the date and calling sub are only written to the first line to reduce the log size:

2013-06-06 13:03:58|24316|2375:3115|test|utils.pm:mysub(4500)|:first line
|24316|2375:3115|test| : 2nd line

When split up in Excel, the '2nd line' text will be placed under the 'utils.pm' field becuase there is an extra '|' deliminator in the first line.

If you try to analyze the occurances of lines generated by a particular subroutine, you have to take an extra step of ignoring the line number.  It would be helpful if the line number were deliminated by '|'.





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