Leading Zeros on Imported Check Number

[Dawning Sky]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> The check number field is a string....  When used for sorting it IS
> treated as an integer, so  0000089 will come before 90.  But gnucash
> lets you use that field for anything you wish.


The real problem is on the matching of the transactions between what was
recorded and what was downloaded.

DS


>
> You could write a patch to do what you want, of course.
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Doug Brown <toquehead at gmail.com>:
>
> > My apologies if this is answered elsewhere ... I couldn't find it.
> >
> > When I import bank account transactions via a OFX import, check numbers
> > are specified in the OFX file as:
> >
> > <CHECKNUM>000089
> >
> > and gnc imports the check number as "000089". I think of check numbers
> > as being integers and it annoys me to see all those leading zeros in my
> > account register. Is there any setting that will tell gnc to strip the
> > leading zeros?
> >
> > I could, of course, strip out the zeros in the ofx file before
> > importing, but that an extra I would prefer to avoid.
> >
> > tia,
> >
> > d.
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