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

[Christopher Lam]

Oops.

The regex filter is a late addition from 2017. Unfortunately regex negate
string match (I.e. match not containing a string) is a general weakness of
POSIX regex.

May I suggest file an enhancement request in Bugzilla?

On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, 23:38 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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