Re: Automated transaction amounts "doubled"
Thanks, John. That clarification really helps. On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:30 AM John Wiegley wrote: > > "RS" == Robert Shanley writes: > > RS> journal.txt: > RS> = expr payee == "Joe" > RS> SetAside$100 > RS> MoreMoney -$100 > > RS> 2022/01/05 * Joe > RS> Stuff $600.00 > RS> Checking > > RS> ledger -f journal.txt balance : > > RS> $-600.00 Checking > RS> $-200.00 MoreMoney > RS> $200.00 SetAside > RS> $600.00 Stuff > > RS> What am I doing wrong? > > Your automated transaction expression is matching each posting within your > transaction, since they both have a payee of Joe. Imagine your file had > looked > like this: > > 2022/01/05 * Joe > Stuff $600.00 > > 2022/01/05 * Joe > Checking > > That's where the doubling is coming from. > > 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/CAPmauXPtisSyqAvSXhnOzYQ%3DoA3MAAQPHpNVL8Z0G2DCwAx-6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: Automated transaction amounts "doubled"
> "RS" == Robert Shanley writes: RS> journal.txt: RS> = expr payee == "Joe" RS> SetAside$100 RS> MoreMoney -$100 RS> 2022/01/05 * Joe RS> Stuff $600.00 RS> Checking RS> ledger -f journal.txt balance : RS> $-600.00 Checking RS> $-200.00 MoreMoney RS> $200.00 SetAside RS> $600.00 Stuff RS> What am I doing wrong? Your automated transaction expression is matching each posting within your transaction, since they both have a payee of Joe. Imagine your file had looked like this: 2022/01/05 * Joe Stuff $600.00 2022/01/05 * Joe Checking That's where the doubling is coming from. 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/m2bkpe1zvg.fsf%40newartisans.com.
Re: Automated transaction amounts "doubled"
Thanks, that seems to have worked. On Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 8:47:15 PM UTC-7 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Robert Shanley [2022-11-08 17:51]: > > = expr payee == "Joe" > > SetAside $100 > > MoreMoney -$100 > > > > 2022/01/05 * Joe > > Stuff $600.00 > > Checking > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > My guess is that it's evaluated for each posting, so once for Stuff > and once for Checking. Therefore $200 > > You could do something like: > > = /Stuff/ and expr payee == "Joe" > SetAside $100 > MoreMoney -$100 > > -- > 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/c1552310-e66f-4168-9aaf-5a742e0a8848n%40googlegroups.com.
Automated transaction amounts "doubled"
journal.txt: = expr payee == "Joe" SetAside$100 MoreMoney -$100 2022/01/05 * Joe Stuff $600.00 Checking ledger -f journal.txt balance : $-600.00 Checking $-200.00 MoreMoney $200.00 SetAside $600.00 Stuff What am I doing wrong? Thanks. 0 -- --- 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/b1929ffe-3439-4a58-b0ae-8d1e9400ff92n%40googlegroups.com.
