[GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Wed Aug 29 08:45:24 EDT 2018


If you can provide a sample file which you have verified to fail, we may be 
able to debug it. Best is to attach it to a bug in our bugzilla.

Geert

Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 14:36:35 CEST schreef D:
> I should mention that this thread alerted me to the problems that Excel csv
> files can cause with the importer. My own attempts to import price data
> also failed, as I was using Excel as a source. I attempted to use different
> encoding, as this person did, but none of the many format choices solved it
> for me. My solution was to remove Excel from the process altogether.
> 
> It seems to me that there is need to determine precisely what needs to
> change for the importer to work with Excel.
> 
> [For the record, I could never get the importer to process the EOL
> characters in the Excel csv file. I'm on a Mac, and I know that EOL
> characters can vary by OS. I tried replacing the newline character with
> CRLF, but that didn't work. Nor did any other changes, and so I gave up.
> Regardless, suffice to say that importing from an Excel-generated csv file
> didn't work on my Mac.]I
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On August 29, 2018, at 7:14 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> 
> Oh, I missed that solution post apparently. Thanks for informing me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 13:11:36 CEST schreef Deva -:
> > Thanks Geert.
> > 
> > But please note this was not an issue for me; I was just trying to help
> > another poster with his problems (cc’d on this mail).
> > 
> > Bob can rest easy because the OP said he finally solved it. Something to
> > do
> > with the way he exported his price data from a spreadsheet to CSV was the
> > problem. Once he fixed that, everything worked ok. He posted his solution
> > on this list as well.
> > 
> > Thanks for the follow up.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > On 29-Aug-2018, at 4:06 PM, Geert Janssens
> > <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be<mailto:geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>> wrote:
> > 
> > megagrumpy at hotmail.com<mailto:megagrumpy at hotmail.com>
> 
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