---
title: "[New Article] Using Regex and The XML Classes To Parse Your Log Files"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/new-article-using-regex-and-the-xml-classes-to-parse-your-lo.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/new-article-using-regex-and-the-xml-classes-to-parse-your-lo.html"
published: "2003-06-10T01:50:00"
updated: "2003-06-10T01:50:00"
tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Phew. My new article is up. It's my first one for the O'Reilly network, and my first \"real\" article ever. You could say I'm a bit excited :) \" Summery : Most systems these days can generate log files to store data about…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[New Article\] Using Regex and The XML Classes To Parse Your Log Files

By Roy Osherove June 10, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Phew. My new article is up. It's my first one for the O'Reilly network, and my first "real" article ever. You could say I'm a bit excited :)

"**Summery**:

_Most systems these days can generate log files to store data about the activity of the system. What about when you are asked to transform all of that data into usable information? I will show you how to use regular expressions and .NET's XML classes to turn your log files into a dataset to allow you to search, sort, and report on your data._"

For now, it's on the top of the page over at [OnDotNet.Com](http://www.ondotnet.com/) with a cool graphic and everything. Here's the permalink to [article itself](http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/06/09/parsinglogs.html).

Have fun :)

p.s:

I'd love to hear constructive criticism, if you have any.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/