Neat. I'll get that in the docs.  Thanks.

On 2011-11-16, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Craig Earls <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I am combing bug reports for interesting undocumented features and I ran
>> across --inject.  I spent some time going through the code but can't
>> really
>> see what it is for.  Anyone have any clues?
>
> For my paychecks at a previous employer, I knew how much should be in them.
> This wasn't always the amount that was there.  So I had a metadata field
> like
> this:
>
>     ; Expected:: $1,000.00
>
> Then I would "inject" these amounts into a query like this:
>
>   ledger reg --inject=Expected '^income:foo'
>
> That way, Income:FOO, which is a negative value, would be balanced by the
> injected Expected values.  If the final results was positive, they owed me
> that much money.
>
> This was intended a shorthand for something that I wasn't able to find an
> easier way to do.
>
> John
>


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