I'm pretty sure than the --raw options preserving exactly the format used for amounts in the ledger file.
John (from my iPhone) > On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Pascal Fleury <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using 'ledger print' to cleanup/format/sort my journal file. It mostly > works fine, but I am tracking my use of hourly rented cars (think Zipcar in > the US, known as Mobility in Switzerland). These are charged by hour and by > mileage. A typical transaction looks like this: > > 2014/01/30 * (16785024) Courses > ; car_type: economy > Expenses:Transports:Mobility 27 km @ 0.64 CHF > Expenses:Transports:Mobility 3.5 h @ 2.80 CHF > Credit:Mobility -27.08 CHF > Rounding:Mobility > > Now if I run this through 'ledger print', it ends up becoming: > > 2014/01/30 * (16785024) Courses > ; car_type: economy > Expenses:Transports:Mobility 27 km @ 0.64 CHF > Expenses:Transports:Mobility 12600s @ 0.0007777778 CHF > Credit:Mobility -27.08 CHF > Rounding:Mobility > > While the price is right, it looses a little bit in readability. > > Is there a way to have ledger print either keep the units I used in the > translation, or at least use a default unit (in my case hours) to represent > such items ? > > I found a solution for my needs, which is to use 'hr' as the unit, which > ledger doesn't know, so does not try to convert to anything, but I would > prefer the natural 'h' notation. > > Or maybe I am approaching the whole issue from the wrong angle, so feel free > to tell me how it could be solved in an other way. I am hoping to get total > mileage as well as total renting time out of it. > > --pascal > -- > > --- > 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. -- --- 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.
