Can console.app parse log files?

The Console app displays the system.log file differently from other files ending in .log - it can display different columns with Time, sender, Message, host, etc. Additionally you can search for specific messages.
Here is my question:
Is is possible to display other log files like this? Maybe it's possible to create a "pattern file" that teaches Console how to display my files nicely? I am a web programmer and would like to read the custom log files from my applications in Console in a nicely formatted way.

I don't think the Console application will do what you want. The view that you describe is coming out of a database (/var/log/asl.db); it's not being displayed by directly parsing the text files.
Now, you can add to this asl.db database by utilizing syslogd (see "man asl.conf" and "man syslogd" for more information), which could in theory control what you see in Console. However, that's not going to be as clean or as easy as I think you'd like.
Hope this helps a little...

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