[GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

[Christopher Lam]

Use Account Substring Matcher as the account selector
(*cough*)

This changes the execution of saved-reports, so, will never be acceptable
for merging in.

modified   gnucash/report/standard-reports/transaction.scm
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ be excluded from periodic reporting.")
   ;; Accounts options

   ;; account to do report on
-  (gnc:register-trep-option
+  #;(gnc:register-trep-option
    (gnc:make-account-list-option
     gnc:pagename-accounts optname-accounts
     "a" (_ "Report on these accounts.")
@@ -1847,7 +1847,9 @@ be excluded from periodic reporting.")
                                       (catch 'regular-expression-syntax
                                         (lambda () (make-regexp
account-matcher))
                                         (const 'invalid-regex))))
-         (c_account_0 (opt-val gnc:pagename-accounts optname-accounts))
+         (c_account_0 (gnc-account-get-descendants
+                       (gnc-book-get-root-account
+                        (gnc-get-current-book))))
          (c_account_1 (filter
                        (lambda (acc)
                          (if (regexp? account-matcher-regexp)


On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 23:10, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > With regard to selecting a 'wildcard' type of accounts selection, it's
> > a good entry-level idea for a budding scheme hacker :)
>
> I think it would require significantly more work than that, but I'd love
> to be proven wrong!
>
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> -derek
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