On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 05:56:27PM +0000, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > On 09/05/2016 06:53 PM, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > Hey Ledger Folks, > > > > I'm building a tool for automatically categorizing transactions based > > on regex matching certain journal fields. It's a standard UNIX filter > > that takes a journal file from stdin, modifies it and sends it to stdout. > > I want to maintain the exact format of the journal including comments. > > I haven't figured out a way to do this with the ledger parser python lib > > so I wrote my own[1]. Does anyone else have a better way to do this? > > I'd rather not maintain my own parser. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Ryan > > > > [1] https://gist.github.com/tubaman/0e80cec388d3d5d61e3f300e2477a9ae > > > > > I have a robust parser for ledger files in > https://github.com/Rudd-O/ledgerhelpers , but it is missing some > features. It is meant to preserve the exact format and comments in the > file, so nothing gets destroyed in the parsing process. > > I will welcome pull requests that add those features.
What do you think about trying to add a mode the C++ ledger parser to do this? I think that'a better long-term option because: 1. It's the real parser so it handles all the little edge cases 2. We don't have to maintain a separate parser - Ryan -- --- 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.
