On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > Christopher Browne writes:
> > <snip>
> > > > QIF import is unaffected by date formats, AFAIK, as QIF encodes dates
> > > > into a common format.
> > >
> > > This isn't *quite* true; it appears that different versions of Quicken
> > > encode dates differently, with differences including different
> > > delimiters (e.g. - "/" versus "-" versus ".").
> > >
> > You're kidding, right? Nobody would be silly enough to encode dates
> > in a version-specific way in a file format specifically designed to
> > exchange data?
>
> Sadly, it's true. QIF is a really strange interchange format, I think.
> You can't export multiple accounts in one file, so if you want to
> load two accounts from QIF, you have to load in two QIFs, merge
> them, and then try to make *guesses* as to which transactions
> in one match up with the other.
If you make an assumption about QIF, somebody else will proof you wrong:
My german version of Quicken 8 aka Quicken 2000 _can_ export all acounts
into one QIF. But of course it's broken elsewhere, e. g. it uses '.' as
decimal separator in amounts of money, but ',' in prices and amounts of
shares.
I'm not sure if it's really possible to fix all that automagically. Maybe
we need a set of "filters" for the different QIFs.
Peter
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