From 13044f9c8d5757b6885d78cb5f7f37770e3750ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Budde <mbudde@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:36:43 +0100
Subject: Reject postings with comment after flag

Fixes #1753
---
 doc/NEWS.md            |  2 ++
 src/textual.cc         |  2 +-
 test/regress/1753.test | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 test/regress/1753.test

diff --git a/doc/NEWS.md b/doc/NEWS.md
index 8b3ec1fc..ce468b7f 100644
--- a/doc/NEWS.md
+++ b/doc/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## 3.1.3 (unreleased)
 
+- Properly reject postings with a comment right after the flag (bug #1753)
+
 - Make sorting order of lot information deterministic (bug #1747)
 
 - Remove the `org` command, which was always a hack to begin with (bug #1706)
diff --git a/src/textual.cc b/src/textual.cc
index 04e90e45..258e2560 100644
--- a/src/textual.cc
+++ b/src/textual.cc
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ post_t * instance_t::parse_post(char *          line,
 
   // Parse the account name
 
-  if (! *p)
+  if (! *p || *p == ';')
     throw parse_error(_("Posting has no account"));
 
   char * next = next_element(p, true);
diff --git a/test/regress/1753.test b/test/regress/1753.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4df9851b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/regress/1753.test
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+2018-01-02 * Account name starting with semicolon
+    * ;A        10.00 EUR
+    B
+
+test reg -> 1
+__ERROR__
+While parsing file "$FILE", line 2:
+While parsing posting:
+  * ;A        10.00 EUR
+
+Error: Posting has no account
+end test
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