An example that currently has me puzzled: the first assert below passes,
and the second fails. I'm interested both in learning why in this
particular case, and more important, learning how to use ledger to debug
problems like this in general.
2017-10-01 * Opening Balance
Assets:CurrentAccount $1000
Equity:OpeningBalance
2017-10-02 * Savings
Assets:CurrentAccount:Savings $100
Assets:CurrentAccount
assert account("Assets:CurrentAccount").total == $1000
2017-10-03 * Savings
Assets:CurrentAccount:Savings $100
Assets:CurrentAccount
assert account("Assets:CurrentAccount").total == $1000
This surprises me because if I comment that last assert out and run
ledger b '^Assets:CurrentAccount$' I get $800, and ledger b
'^Assets:CurrentAccount:Savings$' prints $200 -- which adds to $1000,
and indeed ledger b '^Assets:CurrentAccount' prints $1000. Bug?? How
can I see what ledger *thinks* the total is when it evaluates the
assert?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, at 23:13, John Lee wrote:
> Sometimes the assert expressions I'm adding to my ledger file fail and I
> don't immediately know why. If I have something like this:
>
> assert account("Assets:CurrentAccount").total == $123.45
>
> and I'm wrong about the total, then I'll just be told that I'm wrong,
> and not what the correct value is. What's the easiest way to get ledger
> to compute and print the correct value?
>
> Maybe there's a way to print out account values at a given point in a
> ledger file? In particular, maybe there's a way to print the values of
> value expressions as the ledger file is evaluated by a command like
> balance?
>
> I realize it's good to be able to see what the answer is before one
> writes it down, but sometimes it just saves time to have the computer
> work it out so you can see quickly what you did wrong.
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