Hi, I wanted to flag transactions (and postings) with a flag that is not one of the standard *, !, txn. The documentation in "Beancount - Language Syntax" suggested that I should be able to use any character for transactions & postings (and perhaps even a string for the transaction).
However, for the example below, bean-check complains with "Invalid token: 'D'". 2017-01-01 open Income:Salary USD 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank USD 2017-01-02 D "Paycheck" Income:Salary -10 USD Assets:Bank 10 USD It is, however, happy with the characters M or T. I was trying to reason why that is the case. Looking at the parsing grammar in grammar.y <https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/2b20d301782528147e0aba744da9a014323ef630/beancount/parser/grammar.y?at=2.1.2&fileviewer=file-view-default#grammar.y-262>, I thought any character should be ok. TXN, ASTERISK and HASH are handled specially, but the FLAG option might reference any character : %token <character> FLAG /* Valid characters for flags */ But then there is code in lexer.l <https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/2b20d301782528147e0aba744da9a014323ef630/beancount/parser/lexer.l?at=2.1.2&fileviewer=file-view-default#lexer.l-211> that restricts the characters to [!&#?%PSTCURM]; and some python macros for them in flags.py <https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/2b20d301782528147e0aba744da9a014323ef630/beancount/core/flags.py?at=2.1.2&fileviewer=file-view-default> . Is there some underlying reason for this restriction? How can I go about flagging transactions in a custom way? Using metadata seems like one way (although, I did hope that there was a way to use custom flags) Thanks, Shree PS: I should also mention that I'm not very familiar with YACC - so I might also be missing something. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/14ac7f0c-b4eb-481d-8152-9db28ad04f79%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
