On 2026-03-22 19:22, Ram Vilas Gupta wrote: > Can anybody tell me what is the use of / symbol in GnuCash? > Is it used in case of Liability / Assets accounts or in case of Income / > Expenses accounts?
No. > In both cases how it differs from : used to create a sub account? > However if it is not used in both cases; is there any other use of this > symbol / ? The normal character to separate parent accounts from child accounts is the colon, as in Assets:Investments:Vanguard. If you look at Edit » Preferences » Accounts you will see "Separator Character" at the top of the pane. Clicking the Help button leads to this text: ======================================================================== Separator Character: The account separator is the character that separates a parent account from its sub-account, for example Utilities:Electric. The default is a : (Colon), but you can also select / (Slash), \ (Backslash), - (Dash) or . (Period), or any Unicode character that isn't a letter or a number. ======================================================================== The author didn't say so, at least not in this paragraph, but you can't use the separator character in the name of an account. The only reason I can think of to change the separator to something other than a colon is if you absolutely must have one or more account names that contain colons. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
