[GNC] Bugzilla account request

[Tom Teixeira]

06/01/2026,"Descri\ption 1\","-123.34","2282.45"
06/01/2026,"Description 2\","-234.45","2048.00"
06/02/2026,"Description 3","-943.00","3225.45"

The backslash before the p in the first line is not like anything I have 
seen from BoA, but something I tried to verify that it was a backslash 
immediately before a quote which causes problems. I have no idea why 
some payments have a backslash at the end of the description, but it is 
what it is.

Anyway, you can observe the result on the "Import Preview" step of the 
"Import Transactions from CSV..." Assistant since only two transactions 
are shown as available for import.

On 6/7/26 5:18 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> Thanks John,
>
> I haven't done any testing on it. Then that seems to imply that BoA is
> using the backslash in some context in which the parser is unable to
> interpret it. I think earlier in the thread Tom mentioned something
> about it being used at the end of a description field rather than as an
> escaping of the comma (or other character) being used as the field
> terminator.
> Tom can you post a line or two from the file where it is giving the
> problem so we can see the context (modify any identifying data as
> necessary preserving the context).
>
> David
>
> On Sun, 2026-06-07 at 12:07 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 6, 2026, at 20:50, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> which means that  Microsoft Excel. Apple's Numbers,
>>> LibreOffice and Google Sheets and BoAwho implement the backslash as
>>> an
>>> escape character which is not part of the official RFC4180
>>> definition
>>> i.e. GnuCash is actually compliant with RFC4180.
>> David,
>>
>> The implication of that is that GnuCash doesn’t treat `\` as an
>> escape character. It does. See
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795666,
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799529,	and
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799774 (Tom Teixeira’s bug)
>> all of which are variations on that theme. See
>> also https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/f3c053fbee8c290d0fd111b1
>> 25a4a52b03de862e/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer-
>> csv.cpp#L51:ff which implements the escaping.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>