Re: Weird "FIND" behavior - anyone else see this?

Ken Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:28:19 -0400, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:

>Boy, this is strange.  I'm in my primary banking register.

I get very similar results.


>In the FIND dialog box on the upper right, I enter "gifts" and I see 
>about 40 transactions containing that string returned....so far, so good.


I get 4.

>
>But if I enter "gif3ts" (with that "3" digit in the middle), I get 
>*thousands* of transactions returned, and I assure you, NONE of them 
>have that string in any field. WTF??

I get 12,782.


>
>I'm on Q 27.1.50.14 on Win 11. I've also verified this behavior also 
>occurs on multiple QDF files and I've VALIDATED at least one of them to 
>see if this fixes it.
>
>I don't THINK a digit in the middle should be any sort of deliniator?
>
>I did a cursory scan on the Q community to see if anyone else has 
>reported this.
>
>Anyone else see this issue?


Yes, it's very odd, but it doesn't particularly bother me.
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