So… I was looking to do a PR for this, and I realized this feature already exists — just under a different syntax. You were right John. What's needed here may be an update to the documentation; not a code change.
The correct way to use expressions in the auto_xact account specification — *without* the patches you provided — is in the ledger below = ^Income Liabilities:Tax:%(tag(/Tax/)) (10/110) $account (-10/110) 2024-07-04 * Sale ; Tax: General Assets 10 USD Income:Customer A I used this example to show that complex expressions also works. With this accounts yields Assets Income:Customer A Liabilities:Tax:General Thank you! *Igbanam* On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:07 PM John Wiegley <jwieg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> Igbanam Ogbuluijah <xigba...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Good stuff! Thanks for the pointer, John. > > > > I'll sit with this over the weekend and come up with a proposal on what > the > > feature-extension should look like. If we agree on that, I'll throw up an > > issue on Github and try to tinker through. > > OK, here’s the “right” code: it accepts $expr — where expr can be any > identifier — and evaluates this expression in the context of the account of > the posting being matched against. Thus, $account and $account_base will > have > the same meaning, but now derived from actual evaluation rather than > hard-coding the implementation of those two identifiers. > > The true completion of this feature would be to also support “$(expr)”, > where > nested parentheses are handled correctly, so that you can say > “$(foo(123))”. > > John > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CAOmRJrer94_gtE6JjsNu3Bm7UwW%3DLRDGiYFZJuhLa941bvQYEw%40mail.gmail.com.