QIF Import: reasonable assumptions?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 8 23:01:27 CDT 2003
It turns out that it's not as big an issue as I thought -- I just
need to shift some processes around.
-derek
Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
> On Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 00:06, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Benoit Grégoire <bock at step.polymtl.ca> writes:
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Well, that's part of the question. Both existing qif importers
> > test each numeric value separately. This seems like a lot of work
> > to me, but I'm wondering if there is a reason that it's done this
> > way. I don't know.
>
> The author of that other tool "QIF-Cleaner" (mentioned by me 1-2 weeks ago)
> wrote that we encountered exactly this problem but *only* for QIF files which
> have been copied together *manually*. To me that would mean it is a
> reasonable assumption for the "normal user" to only provide QIF files with
> uniform locale format.
>
> Christian
>
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