new script to create an expense category file for ledger

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ledgerscripts/get_categories.pl b/ledgerscripts/get_categories.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#
+# This groups a transaction description to an expense category
+# and prints to STDOUT to piping and or filtering elsewhere.
+#
+# The objective is for the output file to be used as a reference
+# for another script which applies expense categories to new
+# unprocessed budget files automatically.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+local $/ = ""; # switch to paragraph mode (allow use of /m modifier below)
+
+while (<>) {
+    if (/\d{4}.*\* (.*)$/m) { print $1 . "@" };
+    if (/Expenses:(.*)£/) { print $1 . "\n" };
+}