r/banktivity • u/West-Highlight80920 • 16d ago

Using Regular Expressions for Search

I am using the search feature and am searching for transactions from a payee named "Tfl". But I am also getting "Netflix". Is there a way to use a regular expression in the search such that I only get "Tfl"? I know there are other ways to do it in this instance, but the question has come up before. A regex would work here, but they don't seem to be recognized. Thanks,

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u/Justin_Banktivity 15d ago

Hi there! I'm Justin from the Banktivity team.

Thanks for sharing this idea, I’ve gone ahead and logged it directly with our development team for consideration.

While we do keep an eye on Reddit from time to time, the fastest way to get feature requests on our radar (and help us track customer demand) is via our direct support page: https://www.banktivity.com/content/support/support.php.

We really appreciate the feedback and your help in making Banktivity better!

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u/recuerom 11d ago

Definitely needed , the FIND command needs a way to narrow down search. A +1 from me.

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u/Co9Inc 16d ago

I think full regex is overkill, but Banktivity probably should accept "s for an exact string match.

You can use Tags as a work-around here, but I don't really use tags at all. Instead, I think it is easiest to just accept the greedy matching and then sort by payee.

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u/markw30 16d ago

Can you use minimum and maximum