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

[john]

Tesco is left out of the search by the `[^c]` term in the regular expression: It allows any character except c after "tes".

The bit about Test is interesting. I was expecting the problem to be something other than a normal character; the implication is that it has something to do with the last character in the string. I'll experiment with that a bit.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 31, 2023, at 23:16, G R Hewitt <hewittgr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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