You, sir, are a wizard. The match regex ^$ did the trick. Thank you very much.
Regards. Gilberto. On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:35 PM, Gilberto Reis Filho > > <gilberto.reis.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > I have a fairly large database of transactions that I want to search > > for empty (null) description, notes or memo fields. > > > > Using the provided search function I always have to type some text to > > perform a search. > > > > Is there any way to search for "null" fields in the database using the > > built in Find Transaction function? > > > > I am using version 5.3 in Windows and the XML backend. > > You can use matches regex and ^$ or doesn't match regex and .+ . In regular > expressions ^ means the beginning of the string and $ means the end, so ^$ is > an empty string. Conversely . means any character and + means one-or-more, so > .+ matches anything. Note that * in place of + means zero-or-more so .* will > match any contents or none at all. It has its uses but this wouldn't be one > of them. > > 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.
