Re: [GNC] How do I search foi empty description, notes or memo fields
If you need to include white space such as a space, a tab, a carriage return, a line feed, or a form feed as construing null, it would be: ^\s*$ This is thinking from perspective that you are looking at the description which shows no visible characters thinking that it is blank else John's suggestion is gold. -Original Message- From: John Ralls Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2023 7:01 PM To: Gilberto Reis Filho Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] How do I search foi empty description, notes or memo fields > On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:35 PM, Gilberto Reis Filho 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.
Re: [GNC] How do I search foi empty description, notes or memo fields
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 wrote: > > > > > On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:35 PM, Gilberto Reis Filho > > 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.
Re: [GNC] How do I search foi empty description, notes or memo fields
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:35 PM, Gilberto Reis Filho > 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.
