On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Dee,
>   The ledger parser (the part of the program that reads the data) needs to
> be very strict about formatting of each line. While it may be easy for a
> human to look at a line of text and determine the meaning of the different
> elements in the text, it is not easy for a computer.
> Traditionally, numerical values must be "all together". The negative sign
> is part of the value. Spaces inside the values are not allowed but you can
> use commas to separate thousands. If you are in a region which uses commas
> to break the decimal then you can use periods as thousand separators.
>
> OK - - - so there are two different schema for 4+ digit numbers.
Hmmmmmmmm - - - any way we could get a 3rd one?


> Please feel free to forward any notes you might take and they can be
> incorporated into the documentation.


Might have to call it obvious docs or some such but I will have a list soon.
(Especially after I put a bunch of hours into entering information.

Thank you for your response.

Dee

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