Chat Logs

The Chat Logs feature provides parsing, display and export of specific types of information in your EverQuest II chat logs. Use a keyword search, choose a filter category, or display blocks of log data from specific dates and times. Using the category filter feature with regular expressions, you can build new filter categories to parse custom combinations of log data in English, French or German.

Using Chat Logs

Click the blue link above the results pane to load a character's chat log. (If you do not see any files listed, log into the game with a character and type /log which will turn on logging for that character.) When the log is loaded successfully, the results pane will show size and date information about the file.

Keyword searchThis is the most efficient search format. Type a keyword (not case-sensitive) and press Search. To load the entire log, leave the keyword blank.

You can narrow the keyword search results by including or excluding terms in the second textbox. For example, you can search for all lines with "aoe" (first textbox) and "mythical" (second textbox). Likewise, you can exclude terms by changing AND to NOT. This will display all lines that contain the first term but not the second term.

Category searchChoose a category from the dropdown list and click Search. Preset categories will display lines that match any of up to 10 filters associated with the category. For example, the "Private chat" filter will display all lines with private chat either to or from the character.

You can modify the category search results by including or excluding terms in the textbox. For example, if you choose the private tells category you can specify a certain name to display only private chat from or to that name. In this case, the logical modifier should be AND. Likewise, you can exclude terms by changing AND to NOT. This will display all tells that do not involve the specified character.

Date/time searchChoose a date, start time and duration from the controls and press Search. You can modify the results by including or excluding terms in the textbox (choose AND to require the terms, choose NOT to exclude all lines that contain the terms.)

Customizing chat categories

If you are handy with regular expressions, you can customize the way log results are parsed by using the custom category feature. You can modify the existing filters or create new ones with any combination of expressions to evaluate. The utility can filter English, German and French logs. In the Category search area, click the blue language link to cycle to the desired language.

Click Edit to raise the filter editor. Choose a language and a category to view the current list of expressions. You can change an expression, add a new one (up to 10 per category), or delete an existing category. To delete an individual expression in a category, highlight it and press the [Del] key. Changes will not be written to disk unless you click OK.

Using regular expressions If you have not used regular expressions, the filter patterns may initially seem cryptic, but they are not at all difficult to master. You can study the existing filters as a starting point and consult Internet resources such as the following: