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diff --git a/doc/property_replacer.html b/doc/property_replacer.html index 4f45ef84..8a7164c5 100644 --- a/doc/property_replacer.html +++ b/doc/property_replacer.html @@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ the string that should be copied. Offset counting starts at 1, so if you need to obtain the first 2 characters of the message text, you can use this syntax:
"%msg:1:2%". If you do not whish to specify from and to, but you want to specify
options, you still need to include the colons. For example, if you would like to
-convert the full message text to lower case, use "%msg:::lowercase%".<p>
+convert the full message text to lower case, use "%msg:::lowercase%".
+If you would like to extract from a position until the end of the string, you
+can place a dollar-sign ("$") in toChar (e.g. %msg:10:$%, which will extract
+from position 10 to the end of the string).<p>
There is also support for <b>regular expressions</b>. To use them, you need to
place a "R" into FromChar. This tells rsyslog that a regular expression instead
of position-based extraction is desired. The actual regular expression must then
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