They are not case sensitive in ledger. I believe Herbert may be using a shell (like zsh) that interprets ^. Try to put it in quotes: .. bal "^assets:"
* Craig Earls <[email protected]> [2013-02-26 06:31]: > Regexs are case sensitive. ^liabilities not equal to ^Liabilities > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Herbert Mühlburger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Ledger" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
