problem with qif-parse.scm in trunk

[Charles Day]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:42 AM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>wrote:

> gnucash trunk r17505 fails on launch for me with:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>   ?: 0* [primitive-load-path "qif-import/qif-parse.scm"]
> In /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:
>  20: 1* (define decimal-radix-regexp #)
>  21: 2* [gsubr-apply #<primitive-procedure make-regexp> ...]
>
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3: In
> procedure make-regexp in expression (make-regexp "^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?
> [0-9]+[+-]?$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?([,'][0-9][0-9]
> [0-9])*(\\.[0-9]*)?[+-]? *$|^ *[$?]?[+-]?[$?]?[0-9]+\\.[0-9]*[+-]? *$"):
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-parse.scm:21:3:
> illegal byte sequence
>
>
> Looks like something in r17490 didn't sit well with my tool set.
>
> Mac OS X 10.5.4
> gcc 4.0.1, autoconf 2.62 (2.63 readily available), automake 1.9.6
> (1.10.1 readily available)
> guile 1.8.3
>
> suggestions?
>

Dave, I have just committed a patch that escapes the Pound symbol in ASCII.
Try updating your SVN to r17509 and see if that fixes it on your system.


>
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>

Cheers,
Charles