On 2 October 2012 10:00, Russell Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I was too using a personal perl script, doing the mapping from a table. But >> > I tried the 'i' of icsv2ledger, and felt in love with this 'i'. On >> > contrary, >> > rubycsv and CSV2ledger does not (yet?) implement this 'interactiveness'. >> > Also CSV2ledger is not unicode compliant, and I am not living in an ASCII >> > world :-). >> >> It was the interactiveness that was the key feature for me as well. I >> came from using MS Money, and so was used to it automatically >> suggesting payees and accounts from the string supplied by the bank, >> so I wanted something similar when I processed my download from the >> bank. > > Interactive sounds like a nice feature! I hadn't tried that. > > Normally I import hundreds of records... So my focus isn't on one at a > time data entry, I want bulk and standardized records. > icsv2ledger does have a mode where if it can match the payee automatically then it doesn't prompt the user but just uses the data immediately. In that case you only get prompted for payees that you've never seen before.
I don't use that because I'm not processing so many records that it's such a big deal. However I still suggest use the tool which best fits your workflow, and the joy of using open formats means we can all use the best tool that fulfils our needs.
