Account Names

[Fred Bone]

On 22 March 2009 at 23:21, Colin Scott said:

> 
> It is perfectly possible to create an account name containing the
> character "/".  However, whenever one attempts to post a split to such an
> account Gnucash gives an error saying that the account does not exist (and
> do you want to create it?).  Edit the account name to remove the "/", and
> the problem goes away.  :-(
> 
> (I have accounts called, for example "B/F Bals" ...)

Strange. It doesn't do that when I post to the 
"Expenses:Entertainment:Music/Movies" that was created for me by the new-
account wizard.

Unless, of course, I'm daft enough to change the account-level separator 
from colon to slash ...