On Dec 17, 9:32 pm, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:19 AM, jimr wrote: > > > would then allow me to compute the total contributions: > > > ledger -s reg tag 403b > > You can also say "reg %403b". > > > or just the pre-tax contributions: > > > ledger -s reg note pre-tax > > More accurate is "tag 403b=pre-tax", or "%403b=pre-tax".
Ah, I hadn't picked up on that! Thank you. > > Does this technique carry any gotchas I need to watch out for? Are > > there simpler techniques for this sort of tracking? > > Not that I know of. Don't forget to try the "bal --pivot=403b" command! That is just awesome! This is *exactly* what I was after, I had been thinking I'd need to write my own shell/awk script to roll it all up. I obviously need to send some more time reading up on ledger! Thank you for the great program and really helpful information, Jim
