Using hyphens in commodity names

Yashovardhan

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Dec 27, 2021, 2:06:50 PM12/27/21

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It seems like using hyphens (-) in commodity names causes ledger to have problems with limit and other queries.

I have submitted an issue on GitHub - Errors due to hyphen in commodity name · Issue #2077 · ledger/ledger (github.com).

Please let me know if there are any set of valid characters for commodity names. Currently, using underscore (_) instead of hyphen (-) seems to be a quick fix.

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Yashovardhan

Martin Michlmayr

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Dec 27, 2021, 6:55:23 PM12/27/21

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* Yashovardhan <yashovardh...@gmail.com> [2021-12-27 11:06]:

> It seems like using hyphens (-) in commodity names causes ledger to
> have problems with limit and other queries.

> For example, ledger reg -l 'commodity == "ABC-Fund"' should output 3 postings but has no output.

In your query, the " quotation mark is used to quote the string. But
since it's a quoted commodity, you also need to specify the quotes for
the commodity. Therefore, you need two quotation marks, like this:

ledger -f d reg -l 'commodity == "\"ABC-Fund\""'

> Please let me know if there are any set of valid characters for
> commodity names. Currently, using underscore (_) instead of hyphen
> (-) seems to be a quick fix.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commoditized-Amounts

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Yashovardhan

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Dec 28, 2021, 7:58:22 AM12/28/21

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Thanks a lot this seems to work!

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