Tesco is left out of the search by the `[^c]` term in the regular expression: It allows any character except c after "tes".
The bit about Test is interesting. I was expecting the problem to be something other than a normal character; the implication is that it has something to do with the last character in the string. I'll experiment with that a bit. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 31, 2023, at 23:16, G R Hewitt <hewit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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.
