I misused Quicken; clearly I intended to say Intuit. As in, there is still no documentation about Intuit's qbx format, while its other formats (qfx, etc.) are well documented.
I'm reasonably certain that I made no mention of text editors. In fact, I'm reasonably sure I suggested that OP cut over to GnuCash without attempting to get their data migrated. What part of my message led you to believe that I was suggesting they use a text editor? David T. On Nov 17, 2024, 6:03 PM, at 6:03 PM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> >> I will also note that while there is information online about >Quicken's *other* formats, there is nothing about how a QBX file is >structured. This suggests that OP will not find any help with >converting into a GnuCash friendly format. > >Please ... watch the distinction between "Quicken" and "QuickBooks". >Although both by "Intuit", the issues doing from one of these to >gnucash >are not the same. > >Also, advising folks "use a text editor" (manual editing process) is OS > >dependent. Those using a 'nix OS should be aiming for a script (shell >language program) to do the editing in-line. Any of the 'nix shell >languages (we each have our favorite) plus the library of standard 'nix > >utilities constitutes a complete language (fundamental data type >"string", and a powerful one at that*) > >Michael D Novack > >* and why today nobody uses the computer language SNOBOL (50'S-60'S). >When I returned to IT (~1979) it was in the IBM mainframe environment >(CPU's actually Crays). So the first shell language I learned was >CLIST. >At that time, I devised a little "case problem" to convince myself I >understood. The problem: > > Prompt for entry of a string; determine if a palindrome by TEXT >palindrome rules (arithmetic palindrome rules trivially easy); report >answer and prompt for another string (or "goodby") > >My CLIST solution was more than a hundred lines. Following that, I used > >the same case problem with each new shell language or even regular >computer language I was learning. To give you a sense of the power of a > >'nix shell + library, my solution using bash + library was the order of > >a hundred CHARACTERS (on five lines for clarity) > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
