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

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

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.

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. -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.