[mIRCStats parser configuration file]

// File information (these lines are shown in mIRCStats)

[File Description]
Exchange Chat (READ NOTES!)

[Author]
Ave

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

// NOTE 1

// mIRCStats v1.20 doesn't handle the "4/22/03 9:58 [START ]" line correctly 
// because it starts exactly like the timestamp line. mIRCStats doesn't parse 
// Date from timestamp line, this is why the date is not parsed from this line either.
//
// Here's a workaround how you can analyze your logs before mIRCStats parser is 
// improved to handle this situation: You need to modify the first [START ] line 
// in your log to be like this:
//
// [START ]4/22/03 9:58 [START ]
// (The extra [START ] added to the beginning of the line)
//
// This parser file can extract log start date from that line.


// NOTE 2

// Also, channelname extraction from line that contains nothing more than channelname 
// gives some problems, because mIRCStats accepts any word as channelname. If channelname 
// parsing rule would be just %channelname%, when processing for example a line 
// "4/22/03 12:21 [MESSAGE]Paul_Mentor" it would parse "[MESSAGE]Paul_Mentor" 
// out as the channelname, because that matches the rule (timestamp is parsed out 
// before handling the rest of the line).
//
// This is why I use channelname parsing rule
// #%channelname%
// which causes the channelname to appear without prefixing "#".
//
// I'll add optional checking to mIRCStats for accepting the %channelname% contents 
// that it must start with one of the accepted characters.

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------



// Allowed variables are:
//
// Single-word variables: 
//    %nick%, %nick2%, %addr%, %channelname%, %monthname%, %ampm%, %anyword%
//
// Numeric variables:
//    %hour%, %minute%, %second%,
//    %day%, %month%, %year%, %anynum%
//
// Multi-word variables (only one allowed per line): 
//    %text%, %mode%, %anytext%

// Main rules: 
// - Variables have to be delimited by some non-variable characters like [%hour%:%minute%]
//   (unless they are fixed length ones like %2hour% (2-digit numeric hour).
// - You can only use one multi-word variable per line.
// - Don't use the same variable multiple times on any line.
// - Use "Test Parser" option to verify your new parsing rules ("Log parser"-settings page).
// - Check mIRCStats help for more info ("Setting options/Log parser")



// ----------------Parser configuration rules start here-------------------------------

// timestamp parsing rules:

[timestamp]
%month%/%day%/%year% %hour%:%minute%


// Parsing patterns in order of probability:

[Normal line]
[MESSAGE]%nick% %text%

[Action]


[Mode change]


[Join]
[ENTERS ]%nick%

[Part]
[LEAVES ]%nick%

[Quit]
[QUIT ]%nick%

[Session Start]
%month%/%day%/%year% %hour%:%minute% [START ]
[START ]%month%/%day%/%year% %hour%:%minute% [START ]

[Session Close]
%month%/%day%/%year% %hour%:%minute% [STOP ]

[Session Time]

[Own normal line]


[Channelname]
#%channelname%


[Rename]

[Topic change]
[TOPIC ]%nick% %text%


[Kick]


[Skip]