Undeclared commodity

[Keith Edmunds]

Hi, new to this. When I run 'hledger check -s', I get:

hledger: 

strict mode: undeclared commodity "£"

in transaction at: "/home/kae/.hledger.journal" (lines 167-182)

The first two lines of the journal are:

; Default formatting

D £1,000.00

Lines 167-182, as reported by the 'check' command, contain opening balances:

2020-9-30 Opening balances

    assets:current accounts:yyyyy    nnnn.nn

    assets:current accounts:xxxxx    nnnn.nn

    [...]

    equity:opening balances

(The "yyy" and "nnn" are names and amounts respectively).

So, "£" only appears in line two. I don't understand why the check is reporting that £ is an undeclared commodity. Can someone help?

[niels...@gmail.com]

Here is a solution that worked for me. Instead of 

   D £1,000.00

try

   commodity £1,000.00

(At least it worked for me with the $ sign, so I am hoping that it will work similarly for you.)

Rob

[Keith Edmunds]

That changes the message to:

hledger: 

strict mode: undeclared commodity ""

in transaction at: "/home/kae/.hledger.journal" (lines 167-182)

So I tried both:

; Default formatting

D £1,000.00

commodity £1,000.00

...and that seems to have fixed it - thank you.

I'm not sure that what I've done reflects the documentation, nor why I need both "commodity" and "D".

[niels...@gmail.com]

Here is my best guess at what is happening. (Please feel free for anyone to chime in who actually knows!) In lines 167-182 you have a number without a pound sign. So without declaring the default commodity, the strict mode is complaining that you are using a commodity, albeit blank, that you didn't declare. However, when you use the "D" to say that numbers without explicit commodities are such-and-such a commodity, strict doesn't complain about your using a number without saying what the commodity was.

Again, the above is a guess. Corrections welcomed!

Rob 

[Simon Michael]

100% correct!

To declare commodities for -s or "hledger check commodities", hledger requires a commodity directive, not just a D directive. 

https://hledger.org/hledger.html#commodity-error-checking

The no-symbol commodity is also a commodity. When you had a D directive, it was assigning a commodity symbol to those, so you no longer had any no-symbol amounts. 

If you really did want to use the no-symbol commodity, and make -s work, you could declare it also:

commodity 1000. A

commodity 1000.

1/1

   (a)  1 A

   (b)  1

$ hledger check commodities

$ 

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