On Jan 5, 2008 12:18 AM, Thomas Baumgart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > on Friday 04 January 2008 23:54, Charles Day wrote: > > > > The biggest problem with QIF is that there really is no standard. > > > > > > > There are so many different ways to doing it that getting it right > > > > 100% of the time is impossible. > > > > I'd hazard to say that how Quicken uses QIF is the standard, if not by > > history (it is the Quicken Interchange Format, after all) then de facto > > by market share and volume. But that's a convenient answer for me, being > > a Quicken user. ;-) > > And even that is not 100% sure, because I encountered one Quicken product > to export data in one way, and at the same time another one exporting in a > different way. > > The problem then - around the year 2000 - was with the meaning/usage of > the > apostrophe in the date. As Derek pointed out: QIF is amibigious. > > -- > > Regards > > Thomas Baumgart >
Yeah, I have no doubt that Intuit has been making changes over the years, making QIF a moving target even for their own users. And they're pretty loosey goosey about a lot of things. -Charles _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
