Hi,

I'm importing QIF and I have noticed that only the first line of comment field is imported. Next lines are lost.

For example, with this QIF statement:

^
D02/02/13
PTEST_PAYEE
Mcomment line 1
comment line 2
T-13,27
CX
LCategory

only "comment line 1" is imported.

I have used this regex to find multiple line in comment field: \n[EM].*\n[^\$\^TR]
I know it is not perfect (for instance if a comment line start with "T"), but it is a good workaround while this issue is not solved.

Regards,
Danilo

You are right this kind of QIF file is imported as you expect because this seems to be not aligned with QIF format.

Code: Select all

^
D02/02/13
PTEST_PAYEE
Mcomment line 1
comment line 2
T-13,27
CX
LCategory

Indeed, as you can see here, each line should have a first character explaining the meaning of the following text.
(see http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/1.8/src/import-export/qif-import/file-format.txt)

Without this rule, how to understand this example?

Code: Select all

^
D02/02/13
PTEST_PAYEE
Mcomment line 1
Line2
T-13,27
CX


Is it a multi line comment with "comment line 1\nLine2" as comment?
Or
Is it a simple transaction with "comment line 1" as comment and "ine2" as category?

So, the question is how did you get this kind of file?
Is this file generated by your bank or by another software?

The QIF I used is generated by iBank on mac os x. I agree with you, it seems a bug of ibank.
I also assume that multiple line comment is not supported in skrooge, is it?

Regards

snem wrote:I also assume that multiple line comment is not supported in skrooge, is it?

Right, multiple line comment is not supported in skrooge.