Certainly an inefficient, unwieldy solution if you're dealing
with huge logfiles. May be problematic on non-Unix too
but you could post-process the logfile in an END {} block
eg, get rid of hr:min:ss part of timestamp for example:
END {
$^I = '';
@ARGV = qw( /path/to/error.log);
while (<>) { s/\d\d:\d\d:\d\d//; print }
}
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:51 AM, SSC_perl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ll sometimes use the following code at the beginning of a script to
> log errors while testing:
>
> BEGIN {
> use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
> open(_STDERR,'>&STDERR'); close STDERR;
> open (my $log, '>>', 'logs/error.log') or warn("Couldn't open
> error.log: $! \n");
> carpout($log);
> close ($log);
> }
>
> However, I would like to change the date format. I’m not wild about
> seeing the the full timestamp on every line:
>
> [Sat Mar 25 08:05:58 2017]
>
> Is there a way I can format that to my liking? I see there's a
> ‘noTimestamp’ option to stop it from printing altogether, but I don’t see a
> way to change the output.
>
> Side question: is there a better way to accomplish what I’m doing
> above? I’m happy with what I already have (except for the date) but only
> because I don’t know anything else. I’d like to hear how others do this.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
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