Re: Confused by output from reg in Ledger 2.6.1

[John Wiegley]

On May 13, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Tim Docker wrote:

I'm a bit intrigued by this. How does this fit with multi commodity
ledgers? eg consider the following:

tim:~/src/ledger-2.6.1$ cat /tmp/t2
2004/05/01 Stock purchase
      Assets:Broker                    50 AAPL @ $30.00
      Expenses:Broker:Commissions       $19.95
      Assets:Broker

2004/06/02 Give Stock away
      Assets:Broker                    -50 AAPL @ $0.00
      Expenses:Gifts:Friend

tim:~/src/ledger-2.6.1$ ./ledger -s -f /tmp/t2 bal
          $-1519.95  Assets:Broker
             $19.95  Expenses:Broker:Commissions
--------------------
          $-1500.00
tim:~/src/ledger-2.6.1$

I seem to have ended up with a non-zero ledger balance. What am I
missing?

Ah, but the costs sum to zero, this is what Ledger balances.  If you
use the -B flag, you'll see that report.

John