Number of levels in chart of accounts

[Andrew Tolmie]

I found that I cannot use the following account name

Income:UK:Santander:Checking:Interest

without bean-query reporting an error saying a colon is there.

I did not get the error if I kept the number of levels to four like this

Assets:UK:Santander:Checking

Is this restriction on number of account levels intentional? 

[Martin Blais]

There is no such restriction

This sounds like a bug or some sort

Please file a ticket with a minimal file that reproduces the problem

Thank you

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[Martin Blais]

Just tested this, I cannot reproduce this error.

I can create a file with this account name and query it, no problem.

Please provide a small file that reproduces this.

Thanks,

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[Andrew Tolmie]

My example is below:

22:39:47 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting

$ cat main.beancount

2012-02-01 open Assets:UK:Santander:Checking:0796 GBP

2012-02-01 open Income:UK:Santander:Checking:0796:Interest GBP

22:40:27 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting

$ bean-check main.beancount

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:2:       syntax error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       syntax error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       Invalid token: 'Interest'

I am using Bash on Windows (Windows subsystem for linux).

[Martin Blais]

Hi Andrew,

The problem is not the length of the account name, it is that each component must begin with a letter.

Your "0796" account name component is the problem here.

I think what happens here is that the account name is recognized up to the ":0796" bit and then it does not recognize that as anything useful by itself.

(I admit that the error message isn't really useful; it's auto-generated by the parser generator.)

Just call it "A0796" or something like that and it should work.

I hope this helps,

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[Andrew Tolmie]

Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder if the parser should use any character in alphanumeric?

On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 4:47:30 AM UTC+1, Martin Blais wrote:

Hi Andrew,

The problem is not the length of the account name, it is that each component must begin with a letter.

Your "0796" account name component is the problem here.

I think what happens here is that the account name is recognized up to the ":0796" bit and then it does not recognize that as anything useful by itself.

(I admit that the error message isn't really useful; it's auto-generated by the parser generator.)

Just call it "A0796" or something like that and it should work.

I hope this helps,

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Andrew Tolmie <andyth...@gmail.com> wrote:

My example is below:

22:39:47 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting

$ cat main.beancount

2012-02-01 open Assets:UK:Santander:Checking:0796 GBP

2012-02-01 open Income:UK:Santander:Checking:0796:Interest GBP

22:40:27 Andrew@LAPTOP-V9S562AR:~/accounting

$ bean-check main.beancount

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:2:       syntax error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       syntax error, unexpected COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT

/mnt/c/Users/andre/OneDrive/accounting/main.beancount:3:       Invalid token: 'Interest'

I am using Bash on Windows (Windows subsystem for linux).

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[Martin Blais]

I think the parser can safely handle that. I ran tests and it seems safe to do so.

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/6cb77e0d335613ad880b6a7e2b505ddd0e931322?at=default

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