With regards to my previous answer, I decided to delete the word 'Test' from 'Car Annual Test' and replaced it with 'NCT'. I could, in the first instance, only backspace delete the 's' of 'Test' as it froze. Then I entered the word 'Tesco' in the'Bank' register description and it went in just fine. I then replaced 'NCT' with 'Test' and the problem returned. I have left it as 'NCT'.
------------------------------ Okay John, done that. Search = [[:<:]]tes[^c] Returns two entries and the description for both is 'Car Annual Test' - which gives the 'Tes' in question. Oddly there are no 'Tesco' transactions - ought there to be, I should have thought so? The entries are: Bank > Prepayments Prepayments > Car Search = [[:<:]]tes[^a-z] Returns nothing. On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 18:28, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > We need to move this back to the list, your results are of general > interest and I don't think that they reveal anything private. > > The matcher only tries to match on the beginning of words, so whatever is > causing the problem starts with `tes` and `ates` won't match it. > > Let's try to find it: Open the find dialog (Edit>Find or cmd-F) in the > register. Select "matches regex" from the list button after "Description" > and enter "[[:<:]]tes[^c]" (no quotes) and click Find. That will present a > list of transactions with descriptions having words starting with tes that > aren't tesco. If it's too many to look through try "[[:<:]]tes[^a-z]"; that > will show only entries where tes is followed by something that isn't a > letter. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.