Similarities between CSV and QIF importers?

[Derek Atkins]

My personal feeling:

Feel free to use these modules as guidance, but I think we want
the parsers written in C, not PERL.

-derek

"Albert Lash" <albert.lash at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Benny,
>
> I just happen to have examined the code for Finance::IIF, and I'm surprised
> at how similar the IIF format is to TSV (tab separated values).  If what I
> think is correct, IIF is TSV. I realize you are talking about QIF, but since
> you also mentioned CSV, it might be an easy addition to include IIF files as
> well.
>
> There are two perl modules which might be of use to you:
> Finance::IIF (already mentioned)
> Finance::QIF
>
> They are available on Sourceforge and CPAN and are recently updated. I don't
> think that Quickbooks can export everything to IIF format (ie transactions),
> but the fact that it can export the chart of accounts makes it a valuable
> conduit. Also worth considering,  I believe Intuit is dropping IIF in lieu
> of qbXML in the latest version.
>
> For what its worth, I've done some digging on the subject and came up with
> these useful URLs:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/msg09127.html
>
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2004-March/029973.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Albert
> http://www.pbooks.org/
>

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