Hi Monks,

I am trying to add current localtime to each line in the log file. The option that i got now is to format the print statement as follows: 

sub current_time {
   ...
   return $formatted_time;
}

print current_time . "$message\n";

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The above method is fine, but has two issues. One, if the message is of multiple lines, time will be added to only the first line. Two, everytime when print is required, the format has to be changed to subroutine,"message". This applies to all 'die', 'croak' and unhandled system exceptions.

As I have learned, it is not possible to override Perl print function to add custom parameter. What can be done to get the log to printed in below format. 

2013-04-10 10:23:01,967 Hash Dumper is:
2013-04-10 10:23:01,967 $VAR1 = {
2013-04-10 10:23:01,967           'c' => 'd',
2013-04-10 10:23:01,967           'a' => 'b'
2013-04-10 10:23:01,967         };
2013-04-10 10:23:01,967 Single line message
2013-04-10 10:23:03,354 DEBUG test end

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Any suggestion is appreciated

In reply to Appending time to each line by ajose

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