Journal Format Version v1

This document is about deprecated version of journal format.
See Journal Format for information about current format.

Journal format version v1 is supported by Tackler versions:

v0.24

v0.5 … v0.23

Backward incompatible Journal Format Changes between v1 and v2

Transaction description	in v2, description must start with `'` -prefix
Transaction code	in v2, code can not contain `'` `(` `)` `[` `]` `{` `}` `<` `>` characters
Transaction metadata (uuid)	in v2, metadata must start by `#` character with space

Journal Format Version v1 features deprecated by v2

Version v1 Journal entry Comments

Version v1	Journal entry	Comments
Transaction code	DATE [ ( code ) ]	Optional transaction code Any character except `)` was accepted.
Transaction description (note)	DATE [CODE] [description]	Optional transaction description Description was all whitespace trimmed text, until newline at the end of line.
Account names	ACCT[:SUBACCT[:...]]	Account and sub-account names begun with a UTF-8 letter. Sub-accounts starting with numbers or all numerical accounts were not allowed.
Transaction metadata	2017-01-01 ;:uuid: 6a8bf2f2-443a-41cc-94b2-f49d785f9614 ...	Transaction metadata Metadata entry (uuid) started with `;:`

Transaction code

DATE [ ( code ) ]

Optional transaction code
Any character except ) was accepted.

Transaction description
(note)

DATE [CODE] [description]

Optional transaction description
Description was all whitespace trimmed text, until newline at the end of line.

Account names

ACCT[:SUBACCT[:...]]

Account and sub-account names begun with a UTF-8 letter. Sub-accounts starting with numbers or all numerical accounts were not allowed.

Transaction metadata

2017-01-01
 ;:uuid: 6a8bf2f2-443a-41cc-94b2-f49d785f9614
 ...

Transaction metadata
Metadata entry (uuid) started with ;: