Parse custom log by date

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Hi All thanks for your help

I was capturing lines by date, however the logs have change to contain additional information on the subsequent lines. I need a method to still parse by date but capture the lines after the date entry as well.

Here is an example of the log entries

2021-05-18T21:05:40.776Z error some data
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2021-05-18T21:05:41.776Z error some data
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2021-05-18T21:05:42.776Z error some data
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Here is my code I was using when all data was on same line as the date/time

$Log1=gc $mylogs |  ? {
    $g = [regex]::Match($_, '(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)').Groups
    (Get-Date -Year $g[1].Value -Month $g[2].Value -Day $g[3].Value) -ge $start }
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You could use Select-String to identify all the lines with the date and time information. Then you could parse this collection of line numbers to assign the subsequent lines to the according date/time line.

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This post has a very similar discussion and solutions that may help you.

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