If the third schema involves whitespace inside values then no. Whitespace is used several other places for semantic separation. It would be VERY difficult to add it inside numbers and still keep performance anywhere like what it is. The is the first request we have ever had for it, and it really adds very little. The entire world uses commas and decimals.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:38 PM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > > --- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
