you need two white space characters between the account name and amount. your sample looks like an accountname yhat ends in $500.00
-=Doug On 9/8/14 12:38 PM, Joseph Mornin wrote: > Here's my ledger.dat: > > | > 2014/09/29Employer > Assets:Checking$500.00 > Income:Salary > | > > When I run ledger -f ledger.dat balance, I get this error: > > | > Error:Postingwithnullamount's account may be mispelled: > "Assets:Checking $500.00" > | > > Why? > > -- > > --- > 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 > <mailto:ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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.