Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder if the parser should use any character 
in alphanumeric?

On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 4:47:30 AM UTC+1, Martin Blais wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> The problem is not the length of the account name, it is that each 
> component must begin with a letter.
> Your "0796" account name component is the problem here.
> I think what happens here is that the account name is recognized up to the 
> ":0796" bit and then it does not recognize that as anything useful by 
> itself.
> (I admit that the error message isn't really useful; it's auto-generated 
> by the parser generator.)
> Just call it "A0796" or something like that and it should work.
> I hope this helps,
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Andrew Tolmie <andyth...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> My example is below:
>>
>> 22:39:47 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting
>> $ cat main.beancount
>>
>> 2012-02-01 open Assets:UK:Santander:Checking:0796 GBP
>> 2012-02-01 open Income:UK:Santander:Checking:0796:Interest GBP
>>
>> 22:40:27 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting
>> $ bean-check main.beancount
>> /mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:2:       syntax 
>> error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT
>>
>> /mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       syntax 
>> error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT
>>
>> /mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       Invalid 
>> token: 'Interest'
>>
>> I am using Bash on Windows (Windows subsystem for linux).
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