Search using regular expressions
Greetings!
One thing that would be absolutely KILLER for Moneydance would be the ability to search, (and possibly replace?), using a simplified regular expression engine.
A good example is the simplified, (one-line only), regular expression parser in Total Commander, created by Andrey V. Sorokin, which can be found at https://regex.sorokin.engineer. (Supposedly written in Delphi and/or Pascal)
In my case, I need to search for transactions that are of the type:
(FIP) or (FIS) followed by a space and a long string of numbers. These numbers are never the same because they represent an ATM transaction number - which is unique to that transaction.
If I can isolate these transactions, I can send them to my bank and they will send back extended description information that doesn't make it into the QFX file the bank sends.
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1 Posted by mhoggie on 28 Mar, 2020 06:35 PM
just a user,
give the Find and Replace extension a try. You can use the Free Text field to search for about anything
2 Posted by jimrh on 29 Mar, 2020 08:47 AM
I already have that extension, and that was the first thing I looked at. Unfortunately, it does not support regular expressions.
The free-text field is good for matches on strings or substrings, but not on classes of objects, which is where regular expressions excel - such as "a string of two or more digits followed by a dash"
System closed this discussion on 28 Jun, 2020 08:50 AM.