How to use account_base

[Igbanam Ogbuluijah]


account_base — from man ledger — is an expression to "Return the base account, i.e. everything after the last account delimiter ':'".

How do I use this within a ledger?

Use case: I want to record tax for sales per customer.

= ^Income
    Liabilities:Tax:$account  -0.1
    $account                   0.1

2024-07-04 * Sale
    Assets    10 USD
    Income:Customer A

This results in a Liabilities:Tax:Income:Customer A account automatically created. What I would like to end up with is Liabilities:Tax:Customer A — is this possible?

Thanks

- Igbanam

[John Wiegley]

I think you would then use $account_base?

John

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[Igbanam Ogbuluijah]

If it's meant to work this way, then there may be a bug somewhere.

With

= ^Income
    Liabilities:Tax:$account_base  -0.1

    $account                   0.1

2024-07-04 * Sale
    Assets    10 USD
    Income:Customer A

the bal query yields

              10 USD  Assets
             -11 USD  Income:Customer A
               1 USD  Liabilities:Tax:$account_base
--------------------
                   0

Wrapping it in braces — i.e $(account_base) or ($account_base) doesn't help either

Is $account_base meant to work within the ledger? If so, I could open an issue on Github and look into why it isn't working as should.

Best,

Igbanam