Audit Parsing Library Requirements

[Loulwa Salem]

Steve Grubb wrote:
>>On the Side note issue, I am all for that, using a "space" when "_"
>>should be just makes for alot of unnecessary parsing exceptions to skip
>>those lonely words.
> 
> That would actually slow down parsing since I would now have to do lots of 
> exception processing. It has to be high performance and adding spaces just 
> makes that harder to achieve.
exactly my point ... I have to deal with the same exceptions for our 
parser. Best thing and what makes the most sense is to use "audit_uid" 
for example instead of "audit uid" and so on for all those two word fields.

>>Also, many audit records have what seems to me to be random symbols (ex.
>>  , : ( ' ). If we get rid of those .. that would be great.
> 
> The are separators for different kinds of information. Don't worry about any 
> of these details. auparse library should make it such that you don't worry 
> about the underlying details.
Well .. our parser right now just skips those symbols when it encounters 
them, but I wanted to bring it up to better understand what purpose they 
serve. If they are necessary, then I guess they stay.

-loulwa