On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 12:52:05 AM UTC-7, John Wiegley wrote: > > >>>>> Michael Toomim <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: > > > Now I have to give up on Ledger. I can't store my transactions in it, > > because I can't get them out when I need to calculate capital gains. I > have > > to write my own ledger alternative. I have to manually re-enter a lot of > > data. :( > > > **I'd love to be proven wrong, but I failed exporting with everything I > > tried: (1) ledger register, (2) ledger csv, (3) python "import ledger", > and > > (4) ledger lisp. I didn't try (5) xml because xml is gross. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "can't get them out". You can export every > single detail of a transaction. Can you give me an example of a single > transaction, and the exported data you'd like to see from it? > > John >
Sure, I gave examples at the beginning of this thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ledger-cli/5De9q-QXxZM>. I want to get a transaction out, but the csv and register commands will only give me postings. Here's a transaction: 2014-1-1 sold bitcoin Assets:bitcoin 4 btc @ $250 Assets:cash -$1,000 CSV export will currently give you: "2014/01/01","","sold bitcoin","Assets:bitcoin","btc","4","","" "2014/01/01","","sold bitcoin","Assets:cash","$","-1000","","" But there's no way to group those two lines back into the single transaction they came from. To calculate capital gains, we need to find all *transactions* where one posting is in cash, and the other is in bitcoin. At the beginning of this thread I gave details on everything I tried to get this information out of Ledger. -- --- 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/d/optout.
