Oh, and please forgive the unbalanced transaction issue, I was just messing
around with the example documentation and hadn't corrected that problem
when I ran into the 'Invalid token' issue I was complaining about.
On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:13:23 PM UTC-7 Jim Robinson wrote:
> At first glance I can't see that there is a way to override what beancount
> is doing here.
>
> It appears as though it has some sort of an opinionated parsers as to what
> is considered valid for a Ticker Symbol, and it won't accept "V" (the
> symbol for Visa). It appears to be wanting an all-uppercase > 1 length
> symbol, which isn't really valid for the real world.
>
> Is there a way to override this behavior? I'm not spotting anything on my
> first pass of the options documentation.
>
> The following ledger fails to parse, complaining about an invalid token
> 'V' (specifically it is complaining about the use of the ticker symbol as a
> unit in "10.00 V", it's fine with the account name).
>
> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:Cash
> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:V
> 2014-02-16 open Expenses:Financial:Commissions
> 2014-02-16 open Equity:OpeningBalances
>
> 2014-02-16 * "Opening Balance"
> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash 10,000.00 USD
> Equity:OpeningBalances
>
> 2014-02-16 * Example purchase of stock symbol V (Visa)
> Assets:US:ETrade:V 10.00 V {231.59 USD}
> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash -23,159.00 USD
> Expenses:Financial:Commissions 9.95 USD
>
>
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