Mass delete of zero split lines?

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 9 06:30:10 EDT 2010


On 9 July 2010 03:40, JimR <kd1yv at arrl.net> wrote:
> Running GNUCash 2.2.9 on Mandriva 2010.0 desktop.
>
> I just discovered something that before I thought was an annoyance, but now
> I think is much more of a pain.  When I split a checkbook register
> transaction to a payee, the next time I create a split to the same payee,
> GNUCash remembers all of those splits.
>
> In particular, when I break down my credit card bill into multiple accounts,
> it remembers those accounts and amounts month-to-month.  For the past
> several years, when a particular month did not have a charge to a specific
> account, I simply deleted the amount, leaving the split line, thinking that
> it caused no harm.
>
> However, when I went to search for a phrase within one of the accounts, I
> got back every month's line item, even though those were all nil amounts.
>  (I probably should have expected this.  Hindsight is always 20-20.)
>
> Is there some way that I can delete all of those nil transactions?  (I have
> a hunch a side benefit is that it might speed up the loading of my files on
> startup.)

Not answering the question but I have several times wondered whether
it counts as a bug that split lines with zero amounts are not
automatically removed, or at least that it might be something worthy
of a enhancement request.  Is there a use for zero split lines at all?

Colin

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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