Mass delete of zero split lines?

[Anthony Dardis]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, just after I graduated from high  
school, and knew nothing whatsoever about accounting, I was working, as a  
programmer, on an accounting package. I had a rounding error, and so  
$200,000.00 was appearing as $199,999.99. I said, look, it's only a penny,  
what difference does it make?

Needless to say the next thing I did was fix the rounding error.

(I have these zero splits in my paycheck for reasons to do with which  
state taxes I'm paying. Clear to me why they're there, not a problem for  
me.)




On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:33:32 -0400, JimR <kd1yv at arrl.net> wrote:

> On 07/09/2010 11:57 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 9 July 2010 15:39, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>> Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>> Yes.  On my paycheck I sometimes have zero split lines because,
>>> e.g. some paychecks I get a reimbursement and some I don't.  I like
>>> always having the split there so I can just go down the paystub and
>>> enter all the correct numbers.
>>>
>> OK, I am convinced.   I can see that it can be useful.
>>
>> Colin.
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> Of course, if anybody is counting these votes, mine is against keeping  
> the nil line splits.
>
> Those who want to retain them for purposes such as above could put in a  
> 0.01 value (or whatever is the smallest denomination of your currency).
>
>