Re: Expressions in ledger, query interface
* John Wiegley [2020-05-11 21:34]: > This is correct. In fact, you can directly determine the differences using > these two debugging commands (which are probably undocumented?): They are actually documented under PRE-COMMANDS in the man page. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/20200512043934.GH21225%40jirafa.cyrius.com.
Re: Expressions in ledger, query interface
> "MM" == Martin Michlmayr writes: MM> So the command line expects a "query", which can be a regex, @regex, MM> %regex. Or you can add an expression with "expr EXPRESSION". Anything else MM> that is allowed as a query? (And is "query" the right word, or what are MM> those things that are not expressions?) MM> And options like -l expect an expression. This is correct. In fact, you can directly determine the differences using these two debugging commands (which are probably undocumented?): ledger expr a and b ledger query a and b John -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m2imh14vpz.fsf%40newartisans.com.
Re: Expressions in ledger, query interface
As a follow-up, I don't think most of these expressions are properly covered in the test suite. If someone were to add such test cases, what would the naming convention be? baseline/expr-<>.test? -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/20200512024717.GD21225%40jirafa.cyrius.com.
Re: How do you categorize dividends vs wages?
Wages are a tax deductible expense but dividends are not. So I make dividends a sub-category of "equity". Note that there is no need to include the payee name in either the wage or dividend payment names since you can use the payee name to filter your reports. Typical entries might be: 2020/05/11 Johnny Smith Expenses:Wages $ 500.00 Liabilities:Tax Deducted $ -90.00 Bank:Checking Account $ -410.00 2020/05/11 Ima Owner Equity:Dividends $ 250.00 Bank:Checking Account $ -250.00 To check Johnny Smith's wage payments you simply need something like ledger -f file.dat reg Wages and @"Johnny Smith" -b 2020/01/01 You can get a summary of all of the transactions for Johnny Smith in the usual way: ledger -f file.dat bal @"Johnny Smith" -b 2020/01/01 Ditto for checking Ima Owner's dividend payments. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/056d366b-130f-4c51-8b53-3537b709d8f4%40googlegroups.com.
Expressions in ledger, query interface
I'm trying to understand something about the query interface. Options like -l allow things like -l "amount > 100". I can also specify the same without -l but then I need to add "expr". So I guess "amount > 100" is an expression in ledger lingo. But then you can also specify queries on the command line like /a/. I think this is a shorthand for "expr account =~ /a/". Is that correct? And @foo is a shorthand for the expression "payee =~ /foo/" So the command line expects a "query", which can be a regex, @regex, %regex. Or you can add an expression with "expr EXPRESSION". Anything else that is allowed as a query? (And is "query" the right word, or what are those things that are not expressions?) And options like -l expect an expression. Is this correct? -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/20200512023003.GA23872%40jirafa.cyrius.com.
