simonmichael/hledger
1
1
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger.git synced 2024-09-16 00:37:33 +03:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

;doc: tags: fix/clarify

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Simon Michael 2022-12-06 06:42:37 -10:00
parent ecbfcd0e0d
commit 99e8eb9a53
1 changed files with 8 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

13
hledger/hledger.m4.md
View File

@ -2352,6 +2352,7 @@ Tags are inherited, as follows:
- Tags on an account affect all postings to that account.
So in the example above,
- the `assets:checking` account has one tag (`accounttag`)
- the transaction has two tags (`transaction-tag`, `another-transaction-tag`)
- the `assets:checking` posting has three tags (`transaction-tag`, `another-transaction-tag`, `accounttag`)
@ -2359,13 +2360,15 @@ So in the example above,
Tags can have a value, which is the text after the colon,
until the next comma or end of line, with surrounding whitespace stripped.
So here `a-posting-tag`'s value is "the tag value", `tag2`'s value is "foo",
and `tag3`'s value is "" (the empty string):
Note this means that hledger tag values may not contain commas.
For example, in this posting:
```journal
expenses:food $10
; some text, a-posting-tag:the tag value, tag2: foo , tag3: , other text
expenses:food $10 ; foo, tag1: value 1 , tag2:value 2, bar tag3: , baz
```
A hledger tag value may not contain a comma.
- `tag1`'s value is "value 1"
- `tag2`'s value is "value 2"
- `tag3`'s value is "" (the empty string)
## Postings