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

On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 9:28:24 AM UTC-5, 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?? 

FWIW: 

I forgot to mention earlier that when I did my first test searching for "gif3ts" in the global search field, 
I too got lots of transactions none of which had the text I searched for. But, when I visually scanned the 
"found" transactions, I believe all of them had a "3" somewhere in their Amount field.

It appeared that Quicken ignored the alphabetic search characters and just searched for the digit 3 in the Amount field. The search did not "find" any transactions that had the number 3 in the Memo field, for example - though a few such transactions did exist.

Offhand, I can't think of any reason for a search algorithm to behave that way that intentionally.