[GNC] GNUCash Ver 5.5 & 5.11 - Parse error wgen opening GNUCASH File

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 5/1/25 09:06, John Ralls wrote:
>
>> On May 1, 2025, at 02:42, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, 30 April 2025 02:29:03 BST s.singh.au at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> Installed ver 5.11 & started the App & am getting this Parse error.  I tried
>>> with Ver5.6, Ver 5.7 etc & same error.  See attached.
>> I'd try a path that does not contain the hash character (#) and see if GC can
>> parse that URL.
> That would be https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799490.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls

If that string is being passed to a shell on Linux then the # is the 
start of a comment on that line.  You might be able to escape it using 
the \ character.