From bd8cfc1d465594fb4f0e7e6352313d4c88459d7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: david Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:55:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Documented the new 'delimiter' property, allowing an alternative to comma-delimited, and noted that no delimiter escaping is done in property values. --- docs-mini/README.logging | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-mini/README.logging b/docs-mini/README.logging index f3be54d0c..4e376a5bd 100644 --- a/docs-mini/README.logging +++ b/docs-mini/README.logging @@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ Gnumeric or Excel). Logging is defined in the '/logging' subbranch of the main property tree; under '/logging', each '/log' subbranch defines a separate log with its own output file and interval. Here is a simple example that logs the rudder and aileron settings every -second (1000ms) to the file steering.csv: +second (1000ms) to the file steering.csv, using a comma (the default, +anyway) as the field delimiter: steering.csv 1000 + , Rudder /controls/rudder @@ -28,9 +30,14 @@ second (1000ms) to the file steering.csv: Each 'log' subbranch contains an optional 'filename' property -(defaults to "fg_log.csv"), an optional 'interval-ms' property -(defaults to 0, which logs every frame), and a series of 'entry' -subbranches. +(defaults to "fg_log.csv"), an optional 'delimiter' property (defaults +to a comma), an optional 'interval-ms' property (defaults to 0, which +logs every frame), and a series of 'entry' subbranches. The +'delimiter' property uses only the first character of the property +value as the delimiter. Note that the logger does no escaping, so you +must choose a delimiter that will not appear in the property values +(that's not hard, since most of the values are numeric, but watch for +commas in the titles). Each 'entry' subbranch contains a 'property' property specifying the name of the property to be logged, and an optional 'title' property