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

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Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
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On 6/25/2023 7:28 AM, Andrew wrote:
> Boy, this is strange.  I'm in my primary banking register.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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'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?


I see the same issue.  I also created a dummy transaction with gif3t in 
the memo field, and searching for gif3t returns thousands of hits, not 
just the one.

Wouldn't a transaction report do the trick, since this is obviously some 
sort of flaw?
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