Nathan Grigg <nat...@nathangrigg.net> writes: > On Jul 30, 2014, at 7:16 AM, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > >> This is perhaps a second question, but I'm confused as to the meaning of >> Ledger's filter expressions. >> >> When you say: >> ledger reg assets:receivable and @CBI >> >> Does it mean: >> Select all the POSTINGS with account Assets:Receivable >> AND >> select all the TRANSACTIONS with payee "CBI"? > > As I understand it, you are always matching postings, but the payee is > propagated to each posting. I think of it as "postings with given > account and payee," but you may be more comfortable if you say > "postings with a given account and in a transaction with given payee." > (Although this might also be less correct because you can override the > payee per posting in a transaction.)
In my case, I was hoping for something exactly equivalent in meaning to the more verbose --limit statement. So what I understood was: "spit out all postings that match assets:receivable, but then only show me those with a payee that matches 'CBI'". > Note that it doesn't say "give me postings matching given account AND > give me postings matching given payee." Despite our use of "and" > there, this would require an OR (i.e. union) operation. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
