[GNC] Question about CSV imports

[Steve Butler]

You might want to take the leap to 5.11 and save yourself the aggrevation
of manipulating the csv file.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 13:53 David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Stephen.  I see that you are correct about release 5.11's ability
> to read that string as a date.  However, it appears that the older form of
> the csv importer that is in release 4.8 chokes on that string as a date. I
> may need to massage my csv file to put the date into a different form for
> that importer.
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I just tried in 5.11-3 and it read '11-April-2025' just fine.  Did you
>> pick the d-m-y format for date?
>>
>>
>> On 4/29/25 13:03, David Carlson wrote:
>> > I am having an issue with CSV transaction imports in both the old
>> version
>> > in release 4.8 and the new version in release 5.11.
>> >
>> > I am trying to import a csv file where the dates are expressed as
>> > "11-Apr-2024".  it appears that GnuCash cannot read those dates.  Is
>> that
>> > correct?
>> >
>>
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> David Carlson
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