Search and Replace

[David Carlson]

On 1/3/2016 3:33 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 January 2016 at 16:38, nevyoung <nevyoung at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi - Is there a search and replace function?
>> I used Quicken for many years but started using Gnucash a year ago. I have
>> been very disappointed in its ability to bulk search and replace Description
>> names that were entered incorrectly or need to be changed for some or other
>> reason.
> I think that if you saved the file as non-compressed xml then you
> could probably use a text editor to do the find and replace.
> Obviously save a backup of the file first just in case it messed it
> up.  Someone more knowledgeable will no doubt put me right if that is
> not correct.
>
> Colin
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I think there would be a few caveats.  One would be to limit searches to 
text contents not crossing any XML tag boundaries. Another might be that 
you need to use a computer with 64 bit addressing if the file is very large.