Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Scott Carpenter
Ah, good to know. Thank you! On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 8:03:42 PM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Martin Michlmayr > [2019-01-05 00:01]: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2019-01-04 > 17:35]: > > > Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but > appears > > > there is a

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2019-01-05 00:01]: > * Scott Carpenter [2019-01-04 17:35]: > > Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but appears > > there is a 256 character limit for the // grouping, e.g.: > > > > While parsing value expression: > > (cleared)&((account =~ /^(fu:

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Scott Carpenter [2019-01-04 17:35]: > Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but appears > there is a 256 character limit for the // grouping, e.g.: > > While parsing value expression: > (cleared)&((account =~ /^(fu: bar|...lots of chars...|abc: def)$/)) >

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Scott Carpenter
I do have them grouped in a tree structure, but was still querying all accounts separately for reasons. My ledgerbil reconciler caches previous balances which should match ledger's --cleared totals. I initially wanted to explicitly query by the cached account names, but realize now it will

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Craig Earls
Never hit that limit! Can you group your accounts in a tree structure? On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 18:35 Scott Carpenter wrote: > Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but appears > there is a 256 character limit for the // grouping, e.g.: > > While parsing value expression:

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-04 Thread Scott Carpenter
Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but appears there is a 256 character limit for the // grouping, e.g.: While parsing value expression: (cleared)&((account =~ /^(fu: bar|...lots of chars...|abc: def)$/))

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-02 Thread Scott Carpenter
Yep I had the longer version with --limit and account =~ Thanks for the tip! On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 7:30:08 PM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2019-01-02 15:11]: > > Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the > docs > > and looks

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Scott Carpenter [2019-01-02 15:11]: > Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the docs > and looks like "6.2.1 Controlling the Accounts and Payees" has what I need. So what did you end up with? I assume ledger -f d bal --limit "account =~ /unwise%$/" If so,

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-02 Thread Scott Carpenter
Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the docs and looks like "6.2.1 Controlling the Accounts and Payees" has what I need. I had looked for --account but gave up too quickly. On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 5:08:57 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > In my

Options for specifying account in a balance query

2019-01-02 Thread Scott Carpenter
In my ledgerbil program I construct ledger queries for accounts and ran into an issue when the account ended with a % sign. I now realize a % sign in the account name probably isn't a great idea, but I'd like to handle if possible. An example! Let's say we have an account: assets: unwise%