added new "csv" property replacer option

to enable simple creation of CSV-formatted outputs (format
from RFC4180 is used)

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/property_replacer.html b/doc/property_replacer.html
index baf053f2..a6e9b518 100644
--- a/doc/property_replacer.html
+++ b/doc/property_replacer.html
@@ -314,6 +314,18 @@ case-insensitive. Currently, the following options are defined:
 <td>convert property text to uppercase only</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
+<td valign="top"><b>csv</b></td>
+<td>formats the resulting field (after all modifications) in CSV format
+as specified in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt">RFC 4180</a>.
+Rsyslog will always use double quotes. Note that in order to have full CSV-formatted
+text, you need to define a proper template. An example is this one:
+<br>$template csvline,"%syslogtag:::csv%,%msg:::csv%"
+<br>Most importantly, you need to provide the commas between the fields
+inside the template.
+<br><i>This feature was introduced in rsyslog 4.1.6.</i>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 <td><b>drop-last-lf</b></td>
 <td>The last LF in the message (if any), is dropped.
 Especially useful for PIX.</td>
@@ -411,7 +423,7 @@ syntax</a>, this is where you actually use the property replacer.</li>
 [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p>
 <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the
 <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br>
-Copyright &copy; 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
+Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
 <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL
 version 2 or higher.</font></p>