[GNC] find AND REPLACE?

[David Carlson]

The simplest answer is:

1.  it is incredibly easy to break the file so that GnuCash cannot read it.

2.  A large part of the file is obfuscated by using tokens instead clear
text so cross references are really difficult to follow.

David C

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Glenn Bordonada via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>  Pardon a naive question from a newbie.
> I noted that I can save my .gnucash file into .xml file which I can edit
> with a text editor or write text processing programs to extract the data in
> various ways.
> Can anybody tell me what are the pros and cons for such a change?
> Regards,Glenn
>
>     On Friday, April 13, 2018, 1:15:14 AM GMT+8, C M Reinehr <
> cmr at reinehr.net> wrote:
>
>  I'm still a novice at GnuCash but from previous discussions I do not
> believe that there is a global find and replace utility. But two ideas
> come to mind. If your file format is XML, isn't that a text file? If it
> is, you could use a text editor ('vi' if you're on Linux) to do a global
> search & replace. Or, if you are using SQLite, you could use the dump
> utility to create a text SQL file and, likewise, use a text editor. Then
> rebuild your GnuCash file from the edited SQL dump file.
>
> HTH!
>
> CMR
>
>
> On 04/09/2018 11:11 PM, Paul Costan wrote:
> > I am looking for the command(s) or work-around to accomplish what I
> > used to use in Quicken as Find and Replace.  Specifically, after
> > downloading multiple months of transactions from my credit union into
> > a simple checkbook ledger, I could use the Quicken "find" to select
> > all transactions with description "Safeway" and then select from them
> > to "replace" the category to "Groceries". I'm good in Gnucash up
> > through the Find part, can't figure out how to easily set the Account
> > without a lot of keystrokes. Didn't see anything in the
> > manual/help/faq.  Suggestions? Thanks.
> >
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