hledger/tests/journal/parse-errors.test
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# Testing parse error messages for accuracy and usefulness.
# 1. A journal with an incomplete date.
<
2018
$ hledger -f - print
>2
hledger: -:1:5:
unexpected newline
expecting date separator or the rest of year or month
>=1
# 2. A journal with an unbalanced transaction.
# When read from stdin, this example actually passes because hledger tries all readers.
# If they all failed, it would show the error from the first (journal reader).
# But in this case the timedot reader can parse it (and shows two decimal places).
<
2018/1/1
a 1
$ hledger -f - bal -N
>
1.00 a
# 3. So in these tests we must sometimes force the desired format, like so.
# Now we see the error from the journal reader.
$ hledger -f journal:- bal -N
>2 /hledger: could not balance this transaction \(real postings are off by 1\)/
>=1
# 4. A posting without two spaces between account and amount.
<
2018/1/1
(a) 1
# hledger doesn't detect this as an error directly, it parses account name "(a) 1" here.
$ hledger -f - print -x
2018/01/01
(a) 1 0
>=