Transaction matching case sensitivity

gnemas at gmail.com gnemas at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 11:17:16 EDT 2011


I entered bug 645406.

I also created a patch and added it as an attachment.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645406

Gregg


On Mar 21, 2011 5:17am, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
> Zitat von Gregg Nemas gnemas at gmail.com>:




> The function split_find_match() in import-backend.c scores

> transactions according to comparisons of amount, date, description,

> etc.



> I noticed that the comparison of the description and memo fields is

> case-sensitive.



> This means that my supermarket entries that have descriptions "Giant

> Food" do not match the downloaded descriptions "GIANT FOOD".



> This applies to both the exact and the 50% match cases, and for both

> the memo and the description fields.



> Can this be changed?




> Sure, sounds like a good proposal. Please add this into bugzilla as  
> enhancement request. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla and maybe even  
> somebody could add a patch so that the developers only need to commit the  
> patch to SVN?



> Thanks,



> Christian





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