Geert, I have filed Bug 796833 with both a short csv file from my copy of Excel, and a screenshot of the importer result.
Cheers, David > On Aug 29, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > If you can provide a sample file which you have verified to fail, we may be > able to debug it. Best is to attach it to a bug in our bugzilla. > > Geert > > Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 14:36:35 CEST schreef D: >> I should mention that this thread alerted me to the problems that Excel csv >> files can cause with the importer. My own attempts to import price data >> also failed, as I was using Excel as a source. I attempted to use different >> encoding, as this person did, but none of the many format choices solved it >> for me. My solution was to remove Excel from the process altogether. >> >> It seems to me that there is need to determine precisely what needs to >> change for the importer to work with Excel. >> >> [For the record, I could never get the importer to process the EOL >> characters in the Excel csv file. I'm on a Mac, and I know that EOL >> characters can vary by OS. I tried replacing the newline character with >> CRLF, but that didn't work. Nor did any other changes, and so I gave up. >> Regardless, suffice to say that importing from an Excel-generated csv file >> didn't work on my Mac.]I >> >> David >> >> >> On August 29, 2018, at 7:14 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >> wrote: >> >> Oh, I missed that solution post apparently. Thanks for informing me. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert >> >> Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 13:11:36 CEST schreef Deva -: >>> Thanks Geert. >>> >>> But please note this was not an issue for me; I was just trying to help >>> another poster with his problems (cc’d on this mail). >>> >>> Bob can rest easy because the OP said he finally solved it. Something to >>> do >>> with the way he exported his price data from a spreadsheet to CSV was the >>> problem. Once he fixed that, everything worked ok. He posted his solution >>> on this list as well. >>> >>> Thanks for the follow up. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> On 29-Aug-2018, at 4:06 PM, Geert Janssens >>> <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be<mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>> wrote: >>> >>> megagru...@hotmail.com<mailto:megagru...@hotmail.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
