I see now that if I use, say:
commodity xyz
format 1,000.000 xyz
Putting the commodity last, things behave the same as before with my
output.
On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:23:06 AM UTC-5 Scott Carpenter wrote:
> After updating to 3.3.2, I was getting errors like this with my
> commodities:
>
> While parsing file <something.ldg>, line 6:
> Error: commodity directive symbol abc and format directive symbol should
> be the same
>
> Note the two spaces between "symbol" and "should". Looks like there is no
> format directive symbol. Commodities look like this:
>
> commodity $
> format $ 1,000.00
> default
>
> commodity abc
> format 1,000.000000
>
> commodity xyz
> format 1,000.000
>
> And many more entries. I've been using these for many years. Every format
> line after the first one produced an error like the above when I ran the
> file through ledger.
>
> Adding the commodity to the format line makes the error go away:
>
> commodity abc
> format abc 1,000.000000
>
> Was I doing it wrong all this time and just getting away with it?
>
> Figured I'd share as an FYI that something changed with this, and to help
> others that might run into the same error.
>
> Thank you!
>
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