feat: prices: add the --quoted option to filter prices by the commodity they're quoted in

[basvandijk]

If you have prices of a commodity quoted in multiple currencies like:

hledger prices cur:EUR -p 2025-12-31              
P 2025-12-31 EUR CHF 0.93060
P 2025-12-31 EUR USD 1.17450

It's useful to be able to filter them on the currency they're quoted in:

hledger prices cur:EUR -p 2025-12-31 --quoted CHF
P 2025-12-31 EUR CHF 0.93060

hledger prices cur:EUR -p 2025-12-31 --quoted USD 
P 2025-12-31 EUR USD 1.17450

I'm not sure about the option name. --quoted-in might read better.

[simonmichael]

Thanks!

How necessary is this, compared to alternatives like hledger prices cur:EUR | grep CHF ?

[simonmichael]

Ping. I'm wondering if this feature is needed.

[basvandijk]

How necessary is this, compared to alternatives like hledger prices cur:EUR | grep CHF ?

In my scripts I currently indeed do the filtering outside of hledger so it's not like not having this feature is blocking me from anything. I was just surprised this didn't exist because most other commands in hledger allow you to filter on the currency.

But this might not be worth the complexity.

[simonmichael]

I might be wrong, but it feels a little bit unintuitive and not that much needed. I think I'll hold off for now. We might hear more support, or think of another solution. (A new query type, othercur:, useful in other contexts ? Probably more complicated.)

[basvandijk]

Works for me. Thanks.