Welcome to the Uru Chat Log Formatter, a tool for formatting Uru chat logs (surprise!). This log formatter has been tested quite a bit, so it should work just fine. If you do find a bug though, please do let me know!

Format A Log

The way the log should be formatted:

Click if you’re ready:

Version History

January 6th, 2008

  • Made the chat log formatter totally AJAXy Web 2.0.
  • Improved responsiveness by delegating much responsibility to JavaScript.

August 24th, 2007

  • Integrated the chat log formatter with my web site—easier to maintain that way.
  • Nicknames are no longer case sensitive.

June 28, 2007

  • Removed the ability to format as HTML. Nobody was using that anyway.
  • Removed the ability to format chat logs without timestamps. Nobody was using that either.
  • Actions are no longer highlighted, because they cannot be highlighted reliably. Also see note below.
  • Double spaces or single spaces no longer matter.

Highlighting Actions

The formatter does not highlight actions anymore. The reason is because actions cannot reliably be highlighted. For example, the message the amonre laughs could be interpreted as a user “the” performing an action “amonre laughs”. The log formatter is not able to know that the user is actually named “the amonre” and that the performed action is “laughs”.