I don't have any immediate help, but was wondering if you could give an example of where it's being represented as a decimal? What do the opening / initialization lines look like for your new account? (vs the old one?)
- Cameron Murphy On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 10:12:11 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Hello all, > I'm a relatively new beancount user. > > I've been exporting my online banking data, converting that to beancount > format, and then using the include directive to pull that into my main > beancount ledger. Everything has been going smoothly, until recently when I > created a couple of new accounts to hold some new investments, and noticed > they were being rendered as decimals, even though there wasn't any decimal > and they should have been represented as integers. > > To try and track this down, I've played around with the posting, changing > both sides of the posting, changing the name, and all sorts of things, but > without any luck. While doing this I randomly tried using the name of a > stock I had previously held, and noticed it then rendered correctly. I > tried renaming this to a couple of other stocks that I had previously held > as well, and noticed there was one other stock/account which also rendered > incorrectly as a decimal. > > The transaction in question is about as simple as it can get, so I'm > wondering if I'm encountering a bug or there's another problem with my > ledger somewhere that I'm not yet aware of. When I've run bean-check and > bean-doctor against it, it's passed without any errors, and I usually use > Fava locally while editing to help check for any errors. Here is what the > transaction looks like for reference: > > 2020-07-13 * "Buying company shares" > Assets:ING-DiBa:Shares:ACME 100 ACME {40.27 EUR} > Assets:ING-DiBa:Account -4027 EUR > > > And if I change ACME to be MSFT or TEAM it renders correct, but if I leave > it as ACME or change it to DIS, it renders incorrectly as a decimal. > > At this point I'm at a bit of a loss about how to proceed with working out > why this happen. So I was hoping someone here might be able to give me some > pointers to get me on the right path. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! > > Regards, > Cameron. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2dc04f14-b11f-4be2-987d-c58ac288e5afn%40googlegroups.com.
