how to intelligently parse .qif files

Bill Gribble grib@linuxdevel.com
14 Dec 2001 10:44:59 -0600


On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 09:30, matthew wilson wrote:
> I thought about writing a few perl scripts to read and rewrite the .qif 
> files I download that would classify my expenses for me.  For example,
> all lines that contain the string "office depot" would get flagged as 
> "Expenses:Home computer and office".

This should already work.  If there is no Category line in the imported
transaction, you have an opportunity to map a particular payee to an
account near the end of the QIF import process. 

is it not doing that for you? 

b.g.