[GNC] Wildcard matching on import

[Paul Harmsworth]

By rules I mean the text used for matching, which is stored in the DB.

But if regex can't be done that is truly a pity.

Is there a way of getting change requests  scheduled, and crowd funded?

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 18:25 Derek Atkins, <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> I don't know what "rules" you are talking about.  The importers either use
> string matching or tokenized bayesian matching.  There is no glob or regex
> matching.
>
> -derek
> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>
> On February 20, 2021 11:50:15 AM Paul Harmsworth <paul at harmsworth.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> It doesn't support editing the rules yet I can do that directly in the
>> dB...
>> So I am wondering if properly escaped * in the DB will perhaps work.
>> This lack of user control of rules is a serious product limitation.
>> Regards
>> Paul
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 17:14 Derek Atkins, <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry,
>>> Gnucash does not support wildcard matching for import mapping.
>>>
>>> -derek
>>> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>>>
>>> On February 20, 2021 11:11:19 AM Paul Harmsworth <paul at harmsworth.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Interesting but I want to be able to use wild cards. I can edit the
>>>> gnucash
>>>> db and I want something like *zork*
>>>>
>>>> Doe anyone know how this can be done?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 16:36 David Carlson, <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> You might look at <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bayes> for a start.
>>>>>  I
>>>>> am not sure if this page has been updated for the changes that were
>>>>> made
>>>>> when GnuCash added a way to edit the matching criteria. For general
>>>>> concept
>>>>> I would Google "Bayesian Matching"
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 7:50 AM Paul Harmsworth <paul at harmsworth.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I love Gnucash and have used it often. But, the lack of easy end user
>>>>>> control of matching rules is annoying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whilst I can easily edit the matching lines in the xml DB. I cannot
>>>>>> figure
>>>>>> out how to do wildcard matching. Is it possible to use some kind of
>>>>>> escape
>>>>>> chars in the xml to force wildcard matching?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul
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