Unkown flag error with base-url

[Kev Lau]

Hi,
I keep getting uknown flag errors.

Could someone tell me what is wrong with my base url?
Or how do you do this?

hledger web --base-url=http://hledger.mydomain.net
hledger: Unknown flag: --base-url

[Simon Michael]

Hi Kev, welcome.

because hledger-web is an add-on command, there is a trick you need to know to use it's command-specific options: write them after --, like this:

hledger web -- --base-url=http://hledger.mydomain.net

Or you can invoke the hledger-web executable directly.

hledger-web --base-url=http://hledger.mydomain.net

cf http://hledger.org/manual.html#add-on-commands

Best

-Simon

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[Kev Lau]

Hi Simon,
Thank. Appreciate it.
Unfortunately because of the date syntax problem I dont think hledger will be suitable for me.
I use DD/MM/YYYY (as I live in Asia and have gotten used to this)
Unless there is a way to fix this.

Best Regards
Kevin

[Martin Blais]

Why don't you write a script to pre-process your input file.

Should take about 10-20 minutes.

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[Martin Blais]

Here, run your input file through this script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3                                                                                                              

"""Translate dates seen as the first word of any line to YYYY-MM-DD format."""

import datetime

import sys

import re

print(re.sub(

    '(\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\d\d)',

    lambda match: datetime.datetime.strptime(match.group(1), '%d-%m-%Y').strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),

    sys.stdin.read()))

[Simon Michael]

Oh yeah.. python exists! Thanks for this.

Just for fun I saved it as hledger-convertdates.py in my PATH, and made it executable (chmod +x hledger-convertdates.py), which means I can do (including on windows):

$ cat t.j

31-12-2014  hello

  ; a comment with-a-dateoid or 1-2-3

  a posting  1

  another

$ hledger convertdates < t.j | hledger -f - print

2014/12/31 hello

    ; a comment with-a-dateoid or 1-2-3

    a posting             1

    another              -1

[Martin Blais]

You could probably add two words of Haskell and integrate that into your parser ;-)

[Simon Michael]

I'll do it if we get the Details worked out here...