global find/replace after QIF import

[James A. de Haseth]

Andrew,

Actually that's what I finally resolved to do about that problem.  A
simple sed script will change all the "Interest" transactions in a given
account to "Interest Bank Foo."  You are absolutely right, of course,
and a little work up front on the QIF file can save many headaches
later.

I'm trying to isolate the import problem on a couple of accounts and if
all else fails I'll send a sample QIF to Derek.

Many thanks for the input,

Jim

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:06 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:44:22PM -0500, James A. de Haseth wrote:
> >  There is no
> > distinction between accounts and simply unspecified transactions are
> > labeled "interest."  There's no way to tell which account they came from
> > and there may be six or seven such lines.  I guess I have to punt and
> > rename the individual interest accounts after the fact.  That's actually
> > not a real problem.
> 
> sorry to jump in the middle, but you might get more traction by
> grepping/sed'ing the qif file. it is just flat text after all. I
> haven't done much qif importing of the kind you describe, but since
> qif is so simple it seems a reasonable solution when you can't get
> the importer to operate the way you need.
> 
> .02
> 
> A
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