Eg "1,000" (with , as a thousands separator and no decimal digits) is
now displayed with a decimal mark: "1,000.".
"1 000" (where space is a thousands separator) is less ambiguous,
but we do the same thing (eg "1 000.") for consistency, and also to
help disambiguate when forgetting to quote a numeric commodity symbol
(eg "1234 0" where 1234 is a symbol that should have been in double quotes).
This simplifies the code for styling amounts with or without precision.
But it complicates the semantics (Nothing is useful only when setting style).
Not sure if it's the best way.
print now shows zero posting amounts with their original commodity
symbol and the corresponding style (instead of stripping the symbol).
If an inferred amount has multiple zeroes in different commodities,
a posting is displayed for each of these.
Possible breaking changes:
showMixedAmountLinesB, showAmountB, showAmountPrice now preserve
commodityful zeroes when rendering. This is intended to improve print output,
but it seems possible it might also affect balance and register reports,
though our tests show no change in those.
Equity conversion postings and cost amounts were being matched up too
exactly, causing valid entries with redundant conversion postings and
costs to be rejected. Now the amounts are compared with the precision
(number of decimal places) used in the conversion posting's amount.
Eg, here the first posting's 209.60495 GEL cost is recognised as a
match for the third posting's -209.60 GEL, using the latter's two
digit precision:
2023-01-01
Assets -84.01 USD @ 2.495 GEL ; 209.60495 GEL
Equity:Conversion 84.01 USD
Equity:Conversion -209.60 GEL
Assets 209.60 GEL
The suggested sample balance assertion now uses the same commodity
symbol as in the failing posting (the first, if there are more than
one). Also the cleared mark has been removed.
hledger check recentassertions now reports the error at the first
posting that's more than 7 days later than the latest balance
assertion (rather than at the balance assertion). This is the thing
actually triggering the error, and it is more likely to be visible or
at least closer when you are working at the end of a journal file.
Since 1.29, we unconditionally run part of the --infer-cost logic to
identify redundant costs/equity postings. This was too strict, raising
an error whenever it could not find postings matching the equity
postings. Now we do this (and also the explicit --infer-costs
operation) as a best effort, leaving transactions unchanged if we
can't detect matching postings. This is consistent with
--infer-equity, --infer-market-prices, -B and -V.
Transaction balancing is supposed to balance costs, but these were
being stripped when calculating balance assignments, causing us to
wrongly reject this transaction when the last amount is left implicit,
unlike Ledger:
2023-01-01
Assets AAA -1.1 @@ CCC 2
Assets BBB -1.2 @@ CCC 3
Expenses:Fees CCC 0.2
Assets = CCC 4.9
I'm not sure why costs were being stripped. I seem to have added it
in 2019 (to Journal.balanceNoAssignmentTransactionB in 3b47b58ae),
but this bug seems to be present even before that.
CSV rules files can now be read directly, eg you have the option of
writing `hledger -f foo.csv.rules CMD`. By default this will read data
from foo.csv in the same directory. But you can also specify a
different data file with a new `source FILE` rule. This has some
convenience features:
- If the data file does not exist, it is treated as empty, not an
error.
- If FILE is a relative path, it is relative to the rules file's
directory. If it is just a file name with no path, it is relative
to ~/Downloads/.
- If FILE is a glob pattern, the most recently modified matched file
is used.
This helps remove some of the busywork of managing CSV downloads.
Most of your financial institutions's default CSV filenames are
different and can be recognised by a glob pattern. So you can put a
rule like `source Checking1*.csv` in foo-checking.csv.rules,
periodically download CSV from Foo's website accepting your browser's
defaults, and then run `hledger import checking.csv.rules` to import
any new transactions. The next time, if you have done no cleanup, your
browser will probably save it as something like Checking1-2.csv, and
hledger will still see that because of the * wild card. You can choose
whether to delete CSVs after import, or keep them for a while as
temporary backups, or archive them somewhere.
