QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

[Charles Day]

On Jan 5, 2008 12:18 AM, Thomas Baumgart <ipwizard at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Baumgart
>

Yeah, I have no doubt that Intuit has been making changes over the years,
making QIF a moving target even for their own users. And they're pretty
loosey goosey about a lot of things.

-Charles