[GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

[G R Hewitt]

With regards to my previous answer, I decided to delete the word 'Test'
from 'Car Annual Test' and replaced it with 'NCT'. I could, in the first
instance, only backspace delete the 's' of 'Test' as it froze.
Then I entered the word 'Tesco' in the'Bank' register description and it
went in just fine.
I then replaced 'NCT' with 'Test' and the problem returned.
I have left it as 'NCT'.

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Okay John, done that.

Search = [[:<:]]tes[^c]

Returns two entries and the description for both is 'Car Annual Test' -
which gives the 'Tes' in question.
Oddly there are no 'Tesco' transactions - ought there to be, I should have
thought so?
The entries are:
Bank > Prepayments
Prepayments > Car

Search = [[:<:]]tes[^a-z] Returns nothing.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 18:28, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> We need to move this back to the list, your results are of general
> interest and I don't think that they reveal anything private.
>
> The matcher only tries to match on the beginning of words, so whatever is
> causing the problem starts with `tes` and `ates` won't match it.
>
> Let's try to find it: Open the find dialog (Edit>Find or cmd-F) in the
> register. Select "matches regex" from the list button after "Description"
> and enter "[[:<:]]tes[^c]" (no quotes) and click Find. That will present a
> list of transactions with descriptions having words starting with tes that
> aren't tesco. If it's too many to look through try "[[:<:]]tes[^a-z]"; that
> will show only entries where tes is followed by something that isn't a
> letter.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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