On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 2:06 PM Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28/11/2018 20:53, Martin Blais wrote: > > The current source file for importing that I'm working on lists > > transaction in reverse chronological order (I want chronological, in > > this case) but also has a reference number that is monotonically > > increasing. So my current hack is to set line number for the > > transactions to be that reference number. > > > > > > That seems not unlike the idea of storing the time in metadata - > > discussed in a prior thread but not yet implemented - and to use that as > > a secondary sort key. Maybe I can generalize this idea of a secondary > > sort key to let users put whatever they want in there (as long as the > > type is comparable, for sorting). > > Aren't directives written in the order in which they are returned by the > importer? I didn't see any mention of the fact that bean-extract does > any sorting on its own in the documentation, but I may have missed it. > > Cheers, > Dan > That was my impression as well, but after testing it out I found this was not the case. The returned ordered list of transactions is then sorted by date and line number. -- 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/CAGQ70esZ%2BSFkn4VcaG1dh%2BP1i%3DNgQ9rHvSdx-_8eVKvJ1%3DcRMg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
