[GNC] Use of symbol / in GnuCash

[Wm Tarr]

I suspect (but don't know) there might be some confusion if one changed 
the account sep from : to / and had some account names that included /

Wm

On 2026-03-23 02:52, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2026-03-22 19:22, Ram Vilas Gupta wrote:
>> Can anybody tell me what is the use of / symbol in GnuCash?
>> Is it used in case of Liability / Assets accounts or in case of Income /
>> Expenses accounts?
> No.
>
>> In both cases how it differs from : used to create a sub account?
>> However if it is not used in both cases; is there any other use of this
>> symbol / ?
> The normal character to separate parent accounts from child accounts is
> the colon, as in Assets:Investments:Vanguard. If you look at Edit »
> Preferences » Accounts you will see "Separator Character" at the top of
> the pane. Clicking the Help button leads to this text:
>
> ========================================================================
> Separator Character: The account separator is the character that
> separates a parent account from its sub-account, for example
> Utilities:Electric. The default is a : (Colon), but you can also select
> / (Slash), \ (Backslash), - (Dash) or . (Period), or any Unicode
> character that isn't a letter or a number.
> ========================================================================
>
> The author didn't say so, at least not in this paragraph, but you can't
> use the separator character in the name of an account.
>
> The only reason I can think of to change the separator to something
> other than a colon is if you absolutely must have one or more account
> names that contain colons.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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