QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi all,

on Friday 04 January 2008 23:54, Charles Day wrote:

> > The biggest problem with QIF is that there really is no standard.
> >
> > > There are so many different ways to doing it that getting it right
> > > 100% of the time is impossible.
>
> I'd hazard to say that how Quicken uses QIF is the standard, if not by
> history (it is the Quicken Interchange Format, after all) then de facto
> by market share and volume. But that's a convenient answer for me, being
> a Quicken user.  ;-)

And even that is not 100% sure, because I encountered one Quicken product 
to export data in one way, and at the same time another one exporting in a 
different way.

The problem then - around the year 2000 - was with the meaning/usage of the 
apostrophe in the date. As Derek pointed out: QIF is amibigious.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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