Parsing log files needs tab character

[FUBARinSFO]

Hi:

I've got some rather large (24MB) log files and would like to parse them outside of NOD32. The problem is that the error/information message from NOD32 isn't separated clearly from the file/path it is referring to. Most messages are separated by ' - ', but that string is contained in some paths or filenames as well.

What's needed is an unambiguous message character in the output string, like the tab character (0x09). I thought it was in one of the logs of 4.x, but now I see it's just the space characters as normal.

Is there a setting somewhere where this can be set?

Thank you in advance.

-- Roy Zider

NOD32 2.7, 3.x and 4.x in use

[Marcos]

I'm using v. 4.2.35 and the entries in columns are indeed separated by a tab when exported to a text file

[FUBARinSFO]

Marcos:

Using 4.0.417 here -- don't see that in this version. Is this a releatively recent change? There's no separation in the .xml file export either.

As I said, I thought I had it, but now can't find it. Is there a changelog around here somewhere?

Thanks.

-- Roy

[Marcos]

This log was created using v. 4.0.417:

[FUBARinSFO]

Marco:

Ahh, that explains it. We're looking at different records. You have posted (very nicely I might add) the hex view of a summary record, whereas I am trying to parse the detail records of an on-demand scan.

Unfortunately the log screens have similar labels, so there is some confusion here. On the screen shots that have Time, Scanned Folders, Scanned, etc, I get tabs too. But on the screen which has all the message detail, headed "Log" only, there are no tabs. Do you see what I'm looking at now?

-- Roy

[Marcos]

On-demand scanner logs have always had a structure like this since NOD32 v1 (or even probably NOD32 for DOS). I've successfully used a parser to parse these kind of logs but moved to ecls logs when v3 became available. A possible solution would be bordering the path with speech marks but this might cause troubles to other users who have accustomed the parsers to the current format in the past.

[FUBARinSFO]

Thanks, Marcos. As the subject line says, a simple tab character separation between object and message would solve this.

-- Roy