Hi Łukasz,

Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Craig Earls <[email protected]> writes:
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 19:05, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:42:34PM -0700, Craig Earls wrote:
>>>> My credit union mercifully supports CSV export. [...]
>>>
>>> [...]  Why are you writing your own CSV parser, though?[...]
>>>
>> Mostly because my credit union is brain dead in other ways. They
>> report the transaction type and payee inconsistently split across two
>> fields. I would have to hack up anything else anyway so why not
>> reinvent a wheel.
>
> There are still some CVS parsing libraries like Perl's Text::CSV.

Be aware, though, that it seems limited to pure ASCII text. At least, it is
used as well in (the excellent) CSV2Ledger, and accents (even in ISO Latin 1)
are not permitted.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban

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