[GNC] Closing out QB Pro?!

[Michael or Penny Novack]

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> I will also note that while there is information online about Quicken's *other* formats, there is nothing about how a QBX file is structured. This suggests that OP will not find any help with converting into a GnuCash friendly format.

Please ... watch the distinction between "Quicken" and "QuickBooks". 
Although both by "Intuit", the issues doing from one of these to gnucash 
are not the same.

Also, advising folks "use a text editor" (manual editing process) is OS 
dependent. Those using a 'nix OS should be aiming for a script (shell 
language program) to do the editing in-line. Any of the 'nix shell 
languages (we each have our favorite) plus the library of standard 'nix 
utilities constitutes a complete language (fundamental data type 
"string", and a powerful one at that*)

Michael D Novack

* and why today nobody uses the computer language SNOBOL (50'S-60'S). 
When I returned to IT (~1979) it was in the IBM mainframe environment 
(CPU's actually Crays). So the first shell language I learned was CLIST. 
At that time, I devised a little "case problem" to convince myself I 
understood. The problem:

     Prompt for entry of a string; determine if a palindrome by TEXT 
palindrome rules (arithmetic palindrome rules trivially easy); report 
answer and prompt for another string (or "goodby")

My CLIST solution was more than a hundred lines. Following that, I used 
the same case problem with each new shell language or even regular 
computer language I was learning. To give you a sense of the power of a 
'nix shell + library, my solution using bash + library was the order of 
a hundred CHARACTERS (on five lines for clarity)