log4j displaying log messages using %p

Question

now for a particular log message for the %p sign i wil get either debug or error or warning. can anyone tel me how to get only the first three letters. eg. only WAR for Warning

Answer 1

In log4j 2.x, you can truncate from the end:

Truncation from the end is possible by appending a minus character right after the period. In that case, if the maximum field width is eight and the data item is ten characters long, then the last two characters of the data item are dropped.

Link: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layouts.html#PatternLayout

So in this case, %.-3p should give WAR instead of WARNING.