Hello, I’m still fairly new to Perl. As a build manager I search through the build log and if I find an error, the build is deemed failed.

What I'm trying to figure out, is how to extract from the build log the name of the specific VS project that failed. I'd like to put this information in my build e-mail.

For example, here are two projects in the build log:

------ Rebuild All started: Project: test1, Configuration: Release Win32 ------

Performing Makefile project actions
Copying updated dictionary to test folder
1 file(s) copied.

The system cannot find the file specified.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'copy' : return code '0x1'

Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Makefile project actions"
Build log was saved at "file://c:\test\build.htm"

Test1 - 2 errors, 0 warnings

------ Rebuild All started: Project: test2, Configuration: Release .NET ------
Updating references...
Performing main compilation...

Build complete -- 0 errors, 0 warnings

Obviously Project: test1 is what failed, but how do I extract that project name? I can find the string "2 errors" but can't figure out the rest. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pulling out my hair with this one.

In reply to Extract failed VS project name from build log by Anonymous Monk

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