Re: what is the best way to read text file

From: Paul Clement (UseAdddressAtEndofMessage_at_swspectrum.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:27:48 -0600

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:47:30 -0500, "Alvin Bruney [MVP]" <vapor at steaming post office> wrote:

Alvin,

¤ logfiles follow a different formats depending on the various supported
¤ standards.
¤
¤
¤ If you are looking to parse the log file for errors or just security
¤ concerns, you should instead resort to Microsoft's log parser utility which
¤ ships free as an IIS resource download instead of re-inventing the wheel to
¤ implement your own functionality. It contains the ability to parse logfiles
¤ by firing legitimate sql queries against the raw text file.
¤
¤
¤
¤ It's quite a remarkable piece of machinery actually. The log parser utility
¤ is a command line tool with no GUI interface so you have to learn all the
¤ nuts and bolts. But i've built a web GUI front end that sits on top of
¤ logparser available on www.logparser.com. Serverstats, which is open source
¤ by the way, eliminates the need for the user to learn sql queries and the
¤ nuts and bolts of the logparser utility which can be a bit intimidating. You
¤ can point and click your way thru any w3c extended log file format.

Do you know what the file extensions for these log files are?

Paul ~~~ pclement@ameritech.net
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

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