QIF Import: reasonable assumptions?

BenoitGrégoire bock at step.polymtl.ca
Mon Jul 7 18:51:38 CDT 2003


On July 7, 2003 12:48 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I'm trying to decide if I can make a reasonable assumption: is it
> reasonable to assume that a QIF file will use the same format/notation
> for all numeric values?  What I mean is that some locales use decimal
> notation (comma is a group separator and period is the decimal
> separator) and some locales use comma notation (period is a group
> separator and comman is the decimal separator).  Is it reasonable
> to assume that ALL numerics will be in the same format?

I think that's reasonnable.  I know we've seen some pretty fucked up QIF 
files, but I don't see HOW a program could output mixed numeric formats by 
accident (unless it stores it's internal values as text strings and 
interprets them as needed).

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Benoit Grégoire
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