Thanks John,
Does the entire commodity have to be surround by parens? When
does ledger distinguish between two lots of the same commodity and two
different commodities?
In other words:
GBP (test)
GBP (abc)
(GBP test)
Would strip() see 1, 2, or 3 commodities in that bunch?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 14:38, John Wiegley <jwieg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Martin Michlmayr <tbm-r+vwnyxsfmfqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> Well, this is the question I was trying to ask: are commodities with lot
>> tags different commodities or not? My belief so far was that they are *not*
>> different commodities (i.e. the lot tags are just some meta info), but the
>> example I posted indicates otherwise.
>
> Lot tags/prices/dates represent a new commodity within Ledger itself, but they
> are only *displayed* as unique commodities when you use --lots or
> --lot-dates/prices/tags options.
>
> So, say you have:
>
> Expenses $10 (a)
> Expenses $10 (b)
>
> Although by default this total is displayed as $20, internally the real amount
> is "$10 (a) + $10 (b)". The --lot-tags option is what differentiates display.
>
> There is a value expression function strip() whose job is to remove/collapse
> lot annotations, and scrub(), which only conditionally collapses them (based
> on whether you use one of the above-mentioned options). It's this latter
> function which is used by all the built-in reports.
>
> John
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