Ed, I've imported CSV over 1000 times, probably closer to 1500-2000. The GnuCash CSV importer is a bit of a Swiss Army Knife, in that it has many different tools, and I've used the CSV importer in many different ways.
Based on my experience, you have a character issue, some "special character." With my imports, it's usually a double quote issue, but it could be a different character issue. There are various special characters. As a quick inspection, take a look at the data in the import preview window, and look toward the bottom. My personal experience is that usually the problem is revealed toward the bottom, but sometimes there are matching problems (i.e. multiple character problems that happen in pairs, so the data needs more careful inspection). Somewhere in the preview data, you should see some problems. Another approach, the one I usually use, is to search for a special character. As suggested above, with my CSV imports, it's usually a double quote issue, so I just search for double quotes. Recently Tom Teixeira was experiencing an issue with a backslash before a double quote, but that was fixed with an options box. https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/f737847af2fda683214dc6435a018621066a8a8d > On 11/10/2026 3:26 PM PST Ed Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to import from Charles Schwab brokerage account, but the > CSV importer is saying it can't parse some of the individual fields, though > it doesn't say which. > > Has anybody got a working import for Schwab downloads in any of their > formats, CSV, XML or JSON? > > Thanks, > Ed Greenberg _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
