Hi all, on Friday 04 January 2008 23:54, Charles Day wrote:
> > The biggest problem with QIF is that there really is no standard. > > > > > There are so many different ways to doing it that getting it right > > > 100% of the time is impossible. > > I'd hazard to say that how Quicken uses QIF is the standard, if not by > history (it is the Quicken Interchange Format, after all) then de facto > by market share and volume. But that's a convenient answer for me, being > a Quicken user. ;-) And even that is not 100% sure, because I encountered one Quicken product to export data in one way, and at the same time another one exporting in a different way. The problem then - around the year 2000 - was with the meaning/usage of the apostrophe in the date. As Derek pointed out: QIF is amibigious. -- Regards Thomas Baumgart GPG-FP: E55E D592 F45F 116B 8429 4F99 9C59 DB40 B75D D3BA ------------------------------------------------------------- The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill -------------------------------------------------------------
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