RE: Whitespace in Messages?

[Bruce Riley]

Ron,

You are absolutely right! It turned out to be the program I was using to tail 
the file, mTail. When I look at it in Notepad, it has the proper spacing. 
Sorry, I should have thought to check that before posting.

Thanks!
Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:26 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: Re: Whitespace in Messages?


The FileAppender does not automagically remove or compress white space.
It logs what you tell it to log. This small snippet:

 ConsoleAppender consoleAppender = new ConsoleAppender();
 consoleAppender.Layout = new SimpleLayout();
 BasicConfigurator.Configure(consoleAppender);
 string str = String.Format("[{0,-20}] [{1, -10}]", "hello", "world");
 log.Debug(str);
 log.DebugFormat(str);

produces the following output:
 
 DEBUG - [hello               ] [world     ]
 DEBUG - [hello               ] [world     ]

Are you sure whatever program you're opening the log file up in isn't
compressing the whitespace?

--- Bruce Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to print some log messages containing spaces to a
> RollingLogFileAppender, and the white space is getting compacted.
> Basically, I'm logging a string by doing something like this in C#:
> 
> string str = String.Format("{0,-20} {1, -10}", string1, string2);
> 
> The log output has only one space between the two strings, rather
> than being padded out to 20 spaces as I was expecting. (I'm trying to
> print columns of information.)
> 
> Is this something I can turn off? If it's helpful, I've attached my
> log4net configuration below.
> 
> Thanks
> Bruce
> 
>   <log4net>
>               <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender"
> type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
>                       <param name="File" value="Service.log" />
>                       <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
>                       <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="3" />
>                       <param name="MaximumFileSize" value="100000000" />
>                       <param name="RollingStyle" value="Size" />
>                       <param name="StaticLogFileName" value="true" />
>                       <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
>                               <param name="Header" value="[BEGIN LOG]\r\n" />
>                               <param name="Footer" value="[END LOG]\r\n" />
>                               <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] 
> %-5p - %m%n" />
>                       </layout>
>               </appender>
>       
>               <root>
>                       <level value="INFO" />
>                       <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender"/> 
>               </root>         
>   </log4net>
>