[GNC] clip board paste across catagories

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 30 september 2020 11:51:56 CEST schreef ToddAndMargo via gnucash-
user:
> 1) learn how to import a CSV into GnuCash
> 
> 2) take my data that I was going to place in the clipboard
>     and instead write it to a standard CSV file and location
>     the GnuCash can easily and consistently see
> 
> Since I will be the one handling the dat, I should be able to
> handle the pitfalls of CSV.
> 
> One of my customers had me write a filter between two
> program the used a CSV to transfer data between the two
> of them.  Things go a little interesting when the
> importing program thought the quote mark they were
> using for inches was the field terminator.  It was
> a bug in the receiving program as the field terminator
> is a quote and then a comma.  The end of line is a quote
> and a return.  My solution was to find where they were
> using a quote sign for inches and replace it with "in".
> 
> I do use single quotes to denote cable feet and I may
> have a few double quotes in my part descriptions that
> I have to deal with.  It all depends on how well done
> GnuCash's import function is written. I will find out.

If you want to use double quotes as data, you will have to escape them.

There are two escape methods gnucash understands: prepend with a backslash 
(\") or put two double-quotes in a row ("")

Regards,

Geert