Importing CSV idea

Dave dms22@cam.ac.uk
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:58:44 +0100


I've decided to transfer my spreadsheet based accounts to gnucash. I'd like to
import it all, and in the absence of any importing module, have come up with
the following:

1) Export accounts in simple CSV format
2) Write perl script to transform into XML
3) Paste into current gnucash file

Simple enough, and I should be able to do all of this without much problem
except for the ID field. I need to be able to generate an ID for each
transaction which own't cause problems with gnucash.

Any ideas on how to do this? Should I be asking the -devel group instead?

Thanks for any help,

-Dave