Transaction balancing

[Derek Atkins]

Chris, the importer _DOES_ do string matching... THERE WAS A BUG.  It
was fixed on Jan 6.  Have you tried 1.7.8.  If you still have this
importing "problem" with 1.7.8 then let's talk.  Until you show me a
problem with 1.7.8, I don't want to hear about it.

-derek

Chris Morgan <cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu> writes:

> Does it seem that everyone agrees on the necessity to do string matching =
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> imports?  At the most basic level it would be nice to have a text box at =
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> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:01 pm, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> > Yea, that was my understanding, but I do have trouble with writing answ=
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> > to this list that make sense.
> >
> > If letting the user make the distinction was implementable I would vote
> > that it be at least put on the to-do list
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 9:54 AM
> > To: Phillip Shelton
> > Cc: gnucash-devel@lists.gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: Transaction balancing
> >
> >
> > That wasn't what I meant.  I meant should it partial-match on the
> > beginning or end of the string?  For example, if I have an imported
> > memo of "--ONLINE PAYMENT -- VANGAURD 012384564", I probably want to
> > match on the first three 'words', but how does the system know this?
> >
> > There is currently no interface for the user to tell the system what
> > substring to match on.  Perhaps I know I want to match the WHOLE
> > string.  Perhaps I want to match only part of it.  Right now there is
> > no way to let the user make the distinction.
> >
> > That was my question.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > "Phillip Shelton" <shelton@usq.edu.au> writes:
> > > At the end for my data
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 8:15 AM
> > > To: cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu
> > > Cc: Benoit Gr=E9goire; gnucash-devel@lists.gnucash.org
> > > Subject: Re: Transaction balancing
> > >
> > > Chris Morgan <chrismorgan@rcn.com> writes:
> > > > Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind.  Also, matching on
> > > > the exact same text seems a bit error prone, the memos might
> > > > vary by a slight amount for each transaction.
> > >
> > > At the beginning or the end?  I do believe that the matching code
> > > will partial-match, but I don't know how partial the match is.
> > > I suppose we could try to add some regex matching, but that would
> > > require some user input to say what part should be matched.
> > >
> > > -derek
> > >
> > > --
> > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > >        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available