Hi John,
Am 26.02.13 13:39, schrieb John Wiegley:
Those are regular expressions, so the ^ means "match from the very beginning
of the account name".
Then I have a comment on the documentation as I had some issues on
getting my hands wet with ledger. ;-)
My example ledger file was constructed as explained at page 9 of the pdf
documentation and looks as follows:
2004/09/29 My Employer
Assets:Checking $500.00
Income:Salary
2004/09/30 Restaurant
Expenses:Dining $25.00
Liabilities:MasterCard
Calling on the command line:
% ledger -f ledger-test.dat balance ^assets ^liabilities
gives me am _empty_ response. Which is clear because in my ledger file
the account name does not start at the beginning of the line but one " "
(space) more to the right and the regular expression does not match the
accounts.
Calling
$ ledger -f ledger-test.dat balance ^ assets ^ liabilities
gives the following correct result:
$500.00 Assets:Checking
$-25.00 Liabilities:MasterCard
--------------------
$475.00
So it was quite confusing for me as I worked through the documentation
and had no idea why my file did not produce a result.
I suggest, that the part of the documentation should take this into
account otherwise it is confusing for new users.
Thank you very much and kind regards,
Herbert
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