I tried this out and have a few questions. 1. Below, you used two colons for the meta tag. It looks like it can work with any valued tag as long as the value is a commodity
2. It appears to add an unbalanced posting using the name of the tag as the account. Does that seem right? If so I will write it up. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 14:33, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
