importing qif file

[jcard21 xxxxxxx]

2012/4/7 Hélène PETIT <hpmt at free.fr>:
> Hi !
> As my bank does not give me a correct file to import in gnucash, I wrote a
> python script doing the job. The qif file thus created works fine. The
> header has only one line :
> !Type:Bank
> and, for this reason, gnucash interactively asks for the name of the bank
> account concerned.
>
> I tried several headers including the account name, but all of them were
> rejected by gnucash.
>
> By example
>
> !Account
> N5_Finances:51_CréditAgricole:511_CompteJointCA
> !Type:Bank
>
> or
>
> !Type:Bank
> !Account
> N5_Finances:51_CréditAgricole:511_CompteJointCA
>
> Whay is the correct way to do that ?
> Thanks,
> HP

... and you can see if this helps:

http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/file-format.txt

PS: I personally don't import anything into gnuCash (my personal
finances); I enter transactions manually as they occur, and I then
reconcile my bank statement using the gnuCash Reconcile GUI.

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jcard21