The other place that a forward slash "/" might appear is anywhere that URL's might appear if the program is operating in a Linux or Unix environment. Conversely, a backslash would be used in a Windows environment.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
