Message Padding

[JayTee]

I would like to have my log formatted something like this:

11:22:31.078: ***Trace Message


I assumed that the "padding" was the way to go, so I set up my nlog.config like this:

<target name="trace_file" xsi:type="File" fileName="${basedir}/logs/tracelog_${shortdate}.txt"
                                layout="${processtime}: ${message:padding=3:padCharacter=*}" />

The padding/padCharacter doesn't seem to work.  Am I doing something wrong?

[Jaroslaw Kowalski]

I believe you can just insert the asterisk characters directly in your layout definition.

${processtime}: ***${message}

 

"padding" is for making sure that shorter strings are properly padded to achieve desired fixed length.

Fo example ${level:padding=10:padCharacter=Z} will produce "ZZZZZDebug" for Debug levevel (total length is 10).

 

Jarek

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:44 AM, JayTee (via Nabble) <[hidden email]> wrote:

I would like to have my log formatted something like this:

11:22:31.078: ***Trace Message


I assumed that the "padding" was the way to go, so I set up my nlog.config like this:

<target name="trace_file" xsi:type="File" fileName="${basedir}/logs/tracelog_${shortdate}.txt"
                                layout="${processtime}: ${message:padding=3:padCharacter=*}" />

The padding/padCharacter doesn't seem to work.  Am I doing something wrong?

[JayTee]

That's it   (I knew I was missing something)  Thanks!