Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the docs and looks like "6.2.1 Controlling the Accounts and Payees" has what I need. I had looked for --account but gave up too quickly.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 5:08:57 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > In my ledgerbil program I construct ledger queries for accounts and ran > into an issue when the account ended with a % sign. I now realize a % sign > in the account name probably isn't a great idea, but I'd like to handle if > possible. > > An example! Let's say we have an account: > > assets: unwise% > > And wrap the account to query for an exact match: > > ledger balance '^assets: unwise%$' > > It appears that ledger interprets this as: > > ledger balance '^assets: unwise' %$ > > Where %$ will match any tag. > > Is there some other way to query for accounts that would avoid this issue? > And would want to be able to query for multiple accounts at one time. > > And again, easy solution is that I won't use % in an account name, but it > was working okay otherwise and I'm trying to head off future bug reports > that would be really hard to troubleshoot. :-) > > Thanks! > -- --- 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.
