Niklaus Giger writes:
> Hello,
>
> As a gnucash newbie I just tested the gnucash 1.4.1 release.
>
> It seems to be a very useful program and I am delighted by the elegant
> appearance. Well done. (Installation under SuSE 6.4 still requires some
> twiddling and compiling the sources. But once having found the correct readme
> ,
> installation was smooth.)
>
> I have one problem to use it. I have used several MacIntosh programs for my
> (small) accounting needs. In Switzerland Quicken is not very popular. So none
> of the programs seen til now do allow import or export of quicken data.
>
> On the other side all programs have import/export facitilites that work on
> simple tab delimited text files. Usually one to import the account names and
> another one to import the transfers.
> E.g.
> Acoounts like:
> 1000 Kasse Gyong-Sug 0.00 108.90
> #account-nr text budget initial-value
>
> Transfers like this.
> 31.12.99 GKB an PC 1 1010 1020 500.00
> #date text transfer-nr debit credit amount
>
> Of course, there is no problem if one would need less or more columns or a
> different order of the commetn.
> As I would really like to be able to import old data. I would appreciate any
> hints how I have to modifiy the guile/scheme-programs to be able to do this
> import. (I have programmed using a dozen or so different languages, but
> scheme/guile is new to me. So any hints on tutorials on scheme/guile would al
> be welcomed).
There are several ways to go here. First, we are working on a text
import/export format for GnuCash that will go into the 1.5 development
series. The initial version of this will probably be available in a
week or so. You could use that format to import your data.
You also have two possibilities right now. The easiest is to use the
Perl interface to GnuCash. This interface is used by the gnc-prices
script that is included in the gnucash distribution. Perl would
certainly have no trouble parsing the format you describe.
The other possibility is using scheme. Right now, it's harder to use
a standalone scheme script to interface to GnuCash, although this will
also be addressed in 1.5 soon. There is good scheme information and
tutorials at www.schemers.org. Also, if you are compiling, you can use
the src/guile/gnc.html documentation generated by g-wrap, as well as
the code in src/scm.
Regardless of which way you choose, feel free to use this list to ask
questions.
thanks,
dave
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