Search and Replace

[nevyoung]

I do not S&R only the description. For example, I search for whole line
<trn:description>X Bank Fee</trn:description> and replace it with
<trn:description>X Bank</trn:description>.

 

The *.gnucash file is nearly 10 Meg in size. The editor I use is Notepad++
and I am using a 64 bit Win8.1 computer. I just checked that Win Notepad
running in a XP virtual machine is able to edit this file .

 

 

From: David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash]
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Sent: 04 January 2016 02:10
To: nevyoung
Subject: Re: Search and Replace

 

On 1/3/2016 3:33 AM, Colin Law wrote: 


> On 2 January 2016 at 16:38, nevyoung <[hidden email]> 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.

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