Similarities between CSV and QIF importers?

[Chintan Agarwal]

I guess the complications in QIF import is due to the ambiguities
involved in the data of QIF files(like date formats etc.). Are such
issues present in CSV too. In that case, apart from the parsing part,
much of the code could be similar!
As for the QIF import, I think the existing scheme code gives a good
indication about the issues that would have to be handled.
-Chintan

On 5/30/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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