D Directive vs commodity declaration

[Paul Marriott]

I have just moved from beancount to hledger and am a bit confused with to properly make use of the D directive and commodity directive.

I would like to be able to keep beancount's USD commodity, accept amounts without a commodity as USD and output USD amounts as $ in reports.

I have tried various combinations of D directive and commodity declarations, but cannot seem to make it work.  Can someone explain best approach, short of stripping out all the USD's from my files?

Thanks

[Simon Michael]

Welcome,

There's no built-in way to transform a commodity symbol (from USD to $). The best thing would be to replace it globally in your files. Or more temporarily, to preprocess:

sed -E -e 's/\bUSD\b/$/g' $LEDGER_FILE | hledger -f- ...

or post-process:

hledger ... | sed ...

[Paul Marriott]

I went ahead and stripped out all the USD's and added a D directive.  Since I have several include flies, I found I had to add a D directive at the head of each, but have everything working now.

Thanks