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Use another account separator character
Timedot format makes me want to use
dots (.) for separating account components, instead of
colon (:). For example, instead of
fos:hledger:timedot I’d like to write
fos.hledger.timedot. We can use the powerful account aliases feature to
rewrite account names before hledger’s account name parser sees
them.
In journal files, we can use an alias directive. Note the backslash
which tells the regular expression engine it’s a literal .
not a wildcard:
# alias /REGEX/=REPLACEMENT
alias /\./=:
2008/01/01 income
assets.bank.checking $1
income.salary
Check that subaccounts are recognised:
$ hledger -f t.journal bal --no-elide
$1 assets
$1 bank
$1 checking
$-1 income
$-1 salary
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Alias directives aren’t supported in the timedot format,
2016/2/4
fos.hledger.timedot 2
fos.ledger 1
so we would use the --alias command line option instead.
The second backslash tells the shell that’s a literal backslash, not a
shell escape sequence:
$ hledger --alias /\\./=: -f t.timedot bal --no-elide
3.00 fos
2.00 hledger
2.00 timedot
1.00 ledger
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