[GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

Fred Bone Fred at mandfb.me.uk
Wed Aug 17 04:46:58 EDT 2022


On 16 August 2022 at 17:11, Robert Simmons said:

> > running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back
> through gzip
> 
> As a connoisseur of bad ideas for adding data to GnuCash myself, I have to
> point out that one should use a programming language that has a library
> with support for the structured data format that one wants to add to. You
> use the parser provided by the language to generate objects in that
> language. You then perform operations on those objects. Finally, you use
> the library function to emit well formatted structured data.

Not so much fun, though, as trying to unscramble the results of manual 
tweaking.




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