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> Tab delimited fields are a problem, unless you escape the tabs. I don't understand this? A tab is a tab? > JSON Downside: File size. If you have any apprec

• eru 14y ago
  They should compress well.
  • Pfhreak 14y ago
    In fact, they compress to about a 3% of their size. Since they really only exist in text file form for a limited period of time before being moved on to a separate logging system, their exploded size isn't much of a concern.
• lost-theory 14y ago
  > I don't understand this? A tab is a tab? How do you differentiate between tabs that the logger generates, and tabs inside log messages? You need to escape the tabs inside messages. This problem exists with any character delimited format (e.g. csv).
• adamzochowski 14y ago
  > I don't understand this? A tab is a tab? I think the parent meant that a problem could be if data itself contains a tab character, causing an offset during parsing.