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From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Org-Babel and Ledger
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:23:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkwqzx0p.fsf@mundaneum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871va3v3qk.fsf@gmail.com

Hi Eric,

"Eric Schulte" wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>>>> As you can see, the tables are completely wrongly made, because they're
>>>>> based on spaces ("à la Awk") and not on fixed position of fields ("à la
>>>>> Cut").
>>>>>
>>>>> What can I do about this?
>>>>>
>>>>> - Post-process every ledger command with some awk or cut command that
>>>>>   will do whatever is needed
>>>
>>> 	(org-table-convert-region (point-min) (point-max))
>>>
>>> I would recommend this approach over shell-script post-processing.
>>
>> That seems not to work for me, as input data is, for example:
>>
>> 09-Aug-21 CHEQUE : 9953055                    Expenses:Unknown                                    166.70 EUR            166.70 EUR
>> 09-Sep-17 CHEQUE : 7691785                    Expenses:Unknown                                    100.00 EUR            266.70 EUR
>> 09-Oct-16 REMISE CHEQUE N 8686318 001 105     Expenses:Unknown                                   -525.00 EUR           -258.30 EUR
>>
>> and as =org-table-convert-region= can't convert fixed positioned fields
>> (when SPC are used instead of TAB):
>>
>> (org-table-convert-region beg0 end0 &optional separator)
>>
>> Convert region to a table.
>> The region goes from beg0 to end0, but these borders will be moved
>> slightly, to make sure a beginning of line in the first line is included.
>>
>> separator specifies the field separator in the lines.  It can have the
>> following values:
>>
>> '(4)     Use the comma as a field separator
>> '(16)    Use a TAB as field separator
>> integer  When a number, use that many spaces as field separator
>> nil      When nil, the command tries to be smart and figure out the
>>          separator in the following way:
>>          - when each line contains a TAB, assume TAB-separated material
>>          - when each line contains a comma, assume CSV material
>>          - else, assume one or more SPACE characters as separator.
>>
>> Should that function be smarter, or do I still need pre-processing, then?
>
> Neither, notice that if you pass an integer as the third argument to
> org-table-convert-region it will parse on that many consecutive spaces. The
> following works for me, on the case your provided although I suppose it may
> not work on all cases.
>
> #+results: ledger-output
> #+begin_example 
>   09-Aug-21 CHEQUE : 9953055                    Expenses:Unknown                                    166.70 EUR            166.70 EUR
>   09-Sep-17 CHEQUE : 7691785                    Expenses:Unknown                                    100.00 EUR            266.70 EUR
>   09-Oct-16 REMISE CHEQUE N 8686318 001 105     Expenses:Unknown                                   -525.00 EUR           -258.30 EUR
> #+end_example
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var ledger=ledger-output
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert ledger)
>     (message ledger)
>     (org-table-convert-region (point-min) (point-max) 2)
>     (org-table-to-lisp))
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> | 09-Aug-21 CHEQUE : 9953055                | Expenses:Unknown | 166.70 EUR  | 166.70 EUR  |
> | 09-Sep-17 CHEQUE : 7691785                | Expenses:Unknown | 100.00 EUR  | 266.70 EUR  |
> | 09-Oct-16 REMISE CHEQUE N 8686318 001 105 | Expenses:Unknown | -525.00 EUR | -258.30 EUR |
>
> Hope this helps -- Eric

Of course, it does, Eric!

I misunderstood the above DOCSTRING because, IMHO, it's not that clear:

"When a number, use that many spaces as field separator" meant, for me, that
if using the number 2 (as you do), it would consider a new field every 2
consecutive spaces, and leave me with a lot of empty fields...

In fact, it should be written "consider any amount of whitespaces (above the
given number) as a field separator" or something like that, if you understand
me right.

I was blocked on the fact that every 2 spaces would be a new field separator,
and not every string of 2 or more spaces...

Thanks a lot (once again)!!

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-13  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-29  9:40 Org-Babel and Ledger Sébastien Vauban
2010-07-29 16:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-07-30 20:47   ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-12 11:45     ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-08-12 22:57       ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-13  9:23         ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2010-08-13 11:33           ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-08-13 17:41             ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-13 19:04               ` Sébastien Vauban

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