[Kmymoney] CSV import leaves 30% of Payto field entries blank

aga agander93 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 19:34:13 UTC 2015



On 02/06/15 19:20, Rob Vandermeulen wrote:
> Thx for the response Allan
>
> I already found the bug : It seems that 2 out of a 1000 entries in my
> CSV file had a Payto entry that contained a single space. This created a
> Payee entry in kmymoney called " " and probably started matching
> subsequent Payto entries with a space somewhere in the name.
>
> Once I corrected my CSV and deleted the " " payee, import went as expected.
>
> It might be a good idea to change Kmymoney and add some protection for
> this type of matching, like ignoring 1 character matches, or changing
> the csv importe code reformat " " to a truly empty field, or throw an error.
>
> Brgrds
> Rob

Hi Rob

That's good!  Well done.

I'll need to have a look into this.  Could I ask though for a copy or 
extract of your file, to ensure I fix the right problem.

Allan


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