[GNC] How to compare 2 Transaction Reports to find orphan transactions

[Greg Feneis]

If the reports you're interested in comparing are text based, and your
computer's OS allows you to use Notepad++, you might consider using
Notepad++ to compare the two files.  Notepad++ is a free open source text
editor that has a great file comparison tool.




Kind regards,

Greg Feneis




On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 7:41 AM Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Fran
>
> You've stumbled upon a limitation SFX of regular expressions on filtering
> the transaction report.
>
> You may be aware that the transaction report was, for many years, the most
> versatile report to extract information from a Gnucash data file. It had
> severe limitations and bugs and
>
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, 22:55 Fran_3 via gnucash-user, <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I want to compare Transaction Report A to Transaction Report B
> > and find transactions that appear on one report but not on the other...
> > aka orphan transactions
> > In past I have either...
> > - Done a screen capture of each, pasted them side by side in PC Paint and
> > marked off matching transactions one by one...
> > - Or printed them out and done the same with pen & paper
> > - Or exported the reports and then imported them into a spreadsheet and
> > marked matching transactions one by one
> > All of this is a bunch of work...
> >
> > Is there an easier way?
> > Thanks for any help - Fran3
> >
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