Commodities containing digits and ledger bal

2010-04-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr 
When you have a commodity that contains digits, you have to put it on
quotation marks, as in;

2010-04-02 Test
   Assets:Broker 10 DE0002635307 @ 10
   Assets:Bank

ledger bal will also put this commodity in quotation marks.  Is this
necessary?  IMHO it would be nicer if ledger bal would strip the
quotation mark.

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Re: Commodities containing digits and ledger bal

2010-04-02 Thread Simon Michael 

On 4/2/10 9:45 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

2010-04-02 Test
Assets:Broker 10 DE0002635307 @ 10
Assets:Bank


Hi Martin.. when do you use a commodity symbol like that ? It can probably be dealt with, but it quite collides with the 
desire to write say USD10 as an equivalent for USD 10.




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Re: Commodities containing digits and ledger bal

2010-04-02 Thread John Wiegley 
On Apr 2, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

 ledger bal will also put this commodity in quotation marks.  Is this
 necessary?  IMHO it would be nicer if ledger bal would strip the
 quotation mark.

I think that should be doable.  It's really only ledger print that must quote 
them.

John

Re: Commodities containing digits and ledger bal

2010-04-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr 
* Simon Michael si...@joyful.com [2010-04-02 10:57]:
 Assets:Broker 10 DE0002635307 @ 10
 
 Hi Martin.. when do you use a commodity symbol like that ? It can
 probably be dealt with, but it quite collides with the desire to
 write say USD10 as an equivalent for USD 10.

DE0002635307 is the ISIN for a fund I'm investing in.  I believe it
also has a different name that doesn't contain digits but I'd like to
stick with the ISIN.

Anyway, my request was not about the input format.  I'm fine with
putting the name in quotation marks (although this still needs to be
documented in the manual!).  My request was also about reporting, i.e.
ledger bal.

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Re: Commodities containing digits and ledger bal

2010-04-02 Thread Simon Michael 

I see, thanks. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Securities_Identification_Number was 
informative.



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