Issue 77 in hledger: "hledger convert" produces ledger files with leading * in entries

[hle...@googlecode.com]

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New issue 77 by omega.th...@gmail.com: "hledger convert" produces ledger
files with leading * in entries
http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/detail?id=77

If you feed a CSV to "hledger convert" containing some records with
description fields beginning with a star (*) then the output ledger file
will not be parsable by hledger (you get a confusing error message
about "expecting transaction code" or similar).

At the very least a better error message would be nice.

An example record causing the problem:

21/07/2011,DEB,00-00-00,000000,*BNL C/O AG. ROMA EUROS 200.00
XR 1.10217 CD 0000 17JUL11 ,181.46,,1337.73

[hle...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Accepted
Labels: Type-Defect

Comment #1 on issue 77 by si...@joyful.com: "hledger convert" produces

ledger files with leading * in entries
http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/detail?id=77

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[hle...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Started
Labels: Component-hledger

Comment #2 on issue 77 by si...@joyful.com: "hledger convert" produces

ledger files with leading * in entries
http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/detail?id=77

Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce with current hledger, could you
paste your .rules file or just the directives from the top.

[hle...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: WontFix

Comment #3 on issue 77 by si...@joyful.com: "hledger convert" produces

ledger files with leading * in entries
http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/detail?id=77