Re: [sip-clf] New CLF Syntax draft (text with index)

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@alcatel-lucent.com> Fri, 08 May 2009 15:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sip-clf] New CLF Syntax draft (text with index)
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Adam Roach wrote:
> I actually had started out with all the fields on the first line 
> separated by commas, but removed the ones between the indices to save 
> space. I have a feeling that breaking the total record length out with a 
> delimiter will serve us well in the future if we ever decide to extend 
> the format, but don't have any concrete examples. I'll ruminate on this 
> longer.

OK.

> No; it's an ASCII line feed.
[...]
> Those are ASCII "tab" characters.

Ah, OK.

> Really, I think the fastest way to get the gestalt of what I'm proposing 
> is to uudecode the log message at the bottom of the draft and examine it.

OK, I just did that and I see your intent.

Thanks,

- vijay
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