User defined language for customs logs

Lao Hu · Oct 15, 2018, 12:51 AM

Hello,
I’m wondering what is the best way to format the text of a custom log file (generated by my application) that look like this (comma-separated: Date;Time;Type (DEBUG, COMMAND, INFO, ERROR, etc…);Message):

2018-10-14;23:44:20;DEBUG;printing 218 lines
2018-10-14;23:44:20;COMMAND;w:1b7608r:c700
2018-10-14;23:44:20;DEBUG;printing 199 lines
2018-10-14;23:44:20;COMMAND;w:1b7608r:b100
2018-10-14;23:44:20;DEBUG;printing 177 lines
2018-10-14;23:44:20;COMMAND;w:1b7608r:9b00
2018-10-14;23:44:20;DEBUG;printing 155 lines
2018-10-14;23:44:20;COMMAND;w:1b7608r:8400
2018-10-14;23:44:20;DEBUG;printing 132 lines
2018-10-14;23:44:20;COMMAND;w:1b7608r:6e00

My intention is to colored each line according with the log type (DEBUG, COMMAND, INFO, …).

I appreciated any suggestions.

Thanks

Lao Hu

PS: BTW, I think the editor is wonderful!

Terry R · Oct 15, 2018, 1:01 AM

Hello @Lao-Hu
I don’t use UDL myself but there is documentation for defining a custom UDL for Notepad++.

https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/

would be a good location to start with.
There are also several posts related to UDL. You could do a search (use the magnifying icon at top of the page, near centre), to locate them for additional reading.

Terry

Lao Hu · Oct 15, 2018, 2:28 AM

Hi Terry,
Thanks for taking time to reply and give the suggestions.
The documentation was very useful. I got pretty good results.
https://ibb.co/ecjwFf
I’m still playing around the configuration. Perhaps, I will change the log format to be notepad friendly.
Lao Hu