[VCL-707] Improve ability to parse vcld.log

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Andrew Kurth
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 06/Jun/13 17:12
• Updated: 05/Dec/14 16:49
• Resolved: 05/Dec/14 16:49

Description

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 '|'.