Thanks for the feedback, folks. I think we'll end up using an explicit
"log-trim" regex for this. -Ben
On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 3:03:08 PM UTC+13 Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote:
> I would approach the problem a different way and ask the question, how
> do I split the string to separate the
I would approach the problem a different way and ask the question, how
do I split the string to separate the time? The time parser doesn't
have to be the one to do this. For instance, uou could require a
marker (if the word INFO or its substitute isn't already one), such as
a spaced hyphen:
> How does the user control the format of the timestamp? How do you get the
> time.Parse layout?
>
The project is a lightweight service manager, so the user "controls" the
format of the timestamp based on the service they're running. For example,
if they're running nginx, it will output logs
On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 11:35:06 PM UTC-4 Ben wrote:
> We're making a log processing program that needs to parse times from the
> prefix of a larger string, in this case in a log line such as:
>
> 2006-01-02 15:04:05 INFO this is a log message
>
> We need to parse the "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
