Re: [log4perl-devel] Additional logging methodology

[Kevin G. <ke...@go...>]

Mike Schilli wrote:
> Aldrich, Timothy wrote on 9/15/2004, 10:11 AM:
> 
> it's something people who are 
> not familiar with the categories concept would jump right into for tasks 
> that could be solved much more elegantly with categories. With your 
> requirements, though, it makes sense. Another option would be a custom 
> filter grepping for certain keywords (like "[status]...") in the log 
> message and forwarding matching ones to the appropriate appender.

Here's a way to approach the problem using a separate log category. 
It's probably a matter of taste when choosing between this or creating a 
new log level.  Although this way does make pretty clear in the program 
code that the purpose and destination of the two log messages is different.

$logger       = Log::Log4perl::init('some.category');
$statuslogger = Log::Log4perl::init('status');

$logger->debug("here is a regular debug message");

$status_logger->info("program ended at @{[scalar localtime]}");


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