Importing CSV idea

[Dave Peticolas]

On 02 Jul 2001 17:58:44 +0100, Dave wrote:
> 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?

GnuCash 1.6.1 will come with a little utility for creating guids
outside of gnucash.

dave