Re: [syslog-ng] is it possible to use if() ... else statements on syslog-ng 3.7?

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:34:19PM -0700, Evan Rempel wrote:

$(padding <macro> <prepended characters>)

but the examples show a length argument

$(padding $MESSAGE 10 X): bar would produce a result of XXXXXXXbar

I think the doc is somewhat wrong. Here's what we use for example in our patterndb: <value name='hpss.msg_id'>${hpss.subsystem}$(padding "${hpss.message_num}" "4" "0")</value> And in the example: hpss.subsystem: 'PVLS' hpss.message_num: '100' hpss.msg_id: 'PVLS0100'