NANY 2011 Withdrawn: LogFileParser

[DeVamp]

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	LogFileParser
Version	N/A
Short Description	Parse logfiles, template based
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	N/A
Download Link	N/A
Version History	N/A
Author	DeVamp

Description
At my work, we use a lot of log files as TXT files, created from the treatment of invoices.
Now we browse through them with notepad or another text editor.
Since all invoice logging is put in the same file, it's hard to track what all happened with a certain log file.
It would be handy for us to be able to filter and sort invoices and the events that happened with it.

It would be template based, so that you can choose/create a template that defines the number of columns and it they are a fixed with or with a seperator.

example of a logfile:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Default seperator is #
Output in atachment

23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # 051101 - CODA Login : User : xyz | Password : 123456
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : PostTo (0 = Books, 1 = intray) : 1
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : CmpCode : 051101
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : Code : AF
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : Date : 2010-08-28
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : Description : ELECTRABEL CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS - 010910
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : ExtRef1 : 705802668628
23/09/2010 - 08:55:35 #   . '1971245' # Header : ExtRef2 : 0810
23/09/2010 - 08:55:37 # #  . URL : http://codaserver/codaws/services/finance/inputext/input-11.3

It's my first try at using Autoit. It looks like a perfect environment to create tools like that.

Features
Create, edit, delete templates.
Read, sort & filter the content of the logfile

Planned Features
Program

• Save and load setttings to ini files
• Load default settings or previous settings when starting the program

Templates:

• Create template : define number of fields and columntitles, how to read log file (fixed with, seperator, ...)
• Create template : Eventually define a default directory per template
• Edit template : Modify an existing template
• Delete template : Delete an existing template

Logdetails:

• Sort every column
• Filter a certain column

Future Features

• Export/add a selection of records to a new/existing log file
• Export/add a filtered view to a new/existing log file
• Reformat a log file from templayelayout X to templatelayout Y, as a new file or replace an existing file
• Batch reformat a selection of files
• Read multiple log files and treat them as one, so you can filter/sort over several files
• ... idea's welcome ...

Screenshots
First draft:


Usage
Installation
It's a portable program, so simply extract the file, start Logfileparser

Using the Application
Choose a directory, choose a file, load the file and sort or filter the results.

Uninstallation
Simply delete the directory where the files are unpacked.

Known Issues
Not known. If you know there, let me know :-)

[Perry Mowbray]

  Wonderful - thanks!!

[timns]

I would really like to try this thing when it's available please.

[AzureToad]

Sounds interesting.  I haven't found a really good IIS log file parser (NOT that I've exhausted the Internet  ) so I'm wondering if this would work on files like that?  If you need someone to test it on those... 

[DeVamp]

Hi there,

I'm probably not going to make it before 01/01/11.

There are a couple of reasons, but the most important one is that I'm expecting my first child begin February.
And we normally move house in march or april.
So we are quite busy preparing those things and they ask more time then i thought.

I'm not abandoning, but putting on hold, because it's actually something I can really use at work, but I don't get the time for it at work.

[timns]

There are a couple of reasons, but the most important one is that I'm expecting my first child begin February.

Hey, congratulations!

And we normally move house in march or april.

As one does. I'm the same: I change my car every time the ashtray gets full