The OFX 2.1.1 standard limits <MEMO> elements to a maximum of 255 alphanumeric characters. Today’s principles are different from those of a couple (or more) decades ago when these standards were started and both memory and storage were orders of magnitude more expensive than they are now.
-- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com > On Jan 16, 2019, at 11:09 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > David > > Agreed. The OFX format should in principle have no limitation on a string > length as it should be anything between > opening and closing tags, but there may be on importation in GnuCash. Not > familiar enough with the OFX importer to be > sure whether it imposes any restrictions or not at this stage. > > David Cousens > On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 18:19 -0600, David Carlson wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 4:36 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com wrote: >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> Have you tried examining the file with ofxdump? If you are on Linux, it can >>> >>> be installed with "sudo apt install ofx". Not sure about how to get it for >>> >>> WIndows or MacOS. It will dump to stdout whatever ofxdump can determine >>> >>> about an ofx response file including error messages. It tests conformance >>> >>> with the libofx librarryofxdump. You may need to use it with the debug >>> >>> switch and possibly the parsing messages if using it without the optional >>> >>> switches doesn't give enough info. I.e. >>> >>> >>> >>> $ofxdump --msg_debug --msg_parser<filename> >>> >>> >>> >>> David Cousens >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> >>> David Cousens >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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. >> >> David, >> >> I have already examined one of the OFX files that has a mix of some trans >> actions with memos that were and we're not >> imported with a binary editor and found no difference except possibly number >> of characters in the string. >> >> Right now I am away from home and cannot try OFX DUMP to see if it knows >> whether there is a maximum string length, but >> if there is and it is less than 200 characters I would be surprised. >> >> If that is true, I would hope that it would truncate strings rather than >> drop them. >> >> David C arlson >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
