On 10/12/2016 06:49 PM, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> 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
>
I don't know C++, but if someone did add such a mode to Ledger, I'd
probably use it myself.
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