creating QIF file under Dos using AWK

[Derek Atkins]

Tommy,

Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     piggyb <piggybattery at gmail.com> writes:
>    
[snip]
>     > _*N*101_
>     > PH.J. Simpson
>     > _*A*45 Mercury Close, Southampton_
[snip]
>
> I have been following this thread to try to understand QIF import better and
> one thing that confuses me about these QIF files is the underscores and
> asterisks preceding the A and N fields. @piggybattery, I presume you are using
> those extra characters to get the importer to do something additional?

I suspect that they are *bold* and _underline_ markup that were input
into the Nabble UI.  I.e., I suspect they are just highlighting markup
and not actually part of the original QIF.

> I found a site with some example QIF lines in it and it looks a lot simpler:
>
> http://linuxfinances.info/info/financeformats.html

-derek

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