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hledger_csv(5) hledger User Manuals hledger_csv(5)
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NAME
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CSV - how hledger reads CSV data, and the CSV rules file format
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DESCRIPTION
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hledger can read CSV files, converting each CSV record into a journal
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entry (transaction), if you provide some conversion hints in a "rules
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file". This file should be named like the CSV file with an additional
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.rules suffix (eg: mybank.csv.rules); or, you can specify the file with
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--rules-file PATH. hledger will create it if necessary, with some
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default rules which you'll need to adjust. At minimum, the rules file
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must specify the date and amount fields. For an example, see How to
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read CSV files.
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To learn about exporting CSV, see CSV output.
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CSV RULES
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The following six kinds of rule can appear in the rules file, in any
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order. Blank lines and lines beginning with # or ; are ignored.
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skip
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skipN
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Skip this number of CSV records at the beginning. You'll need this
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whenever your CSV data contains header lines. Eg:
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# ignore the first CSV line
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skip 1
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date-format
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date-formatDATEFMT
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When your CSV date fields are not formatted like YYYY/MM/DD (or
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YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY.MM.DD), you'll need to specify the format. DATEFMT
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is a strptime-like date parsing pattern, which must parse the date
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field values completely. Examples:
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# for dates like "6/11/2013":
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date-format %-d/%-m/%Y
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# for dates like "11/06/2013":
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date-format %m/%d/%Y
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# for dates like "2013-Nov-06":
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date-format %Y-%h-%d
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# for dates like "11/6/2013 11:32 PM":
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date-format %-m/%-d/%Y %l:%M %p
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field list
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fieldsFIELDNAME1, FIELDNAME2...
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This (a) names the CSV fields, in order (names may not contain white-
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space; uninteresting names may be left blank), and (b) assigns them to
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journal entry fields if you use any of these standard field names:
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date, date2, status, code, description, comment, account1, account2,
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amount, amount-in, amount-out, currency. Eg:
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# use the 1st, 2nd and 4th CSV fields as the entry's date, description and amount,
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# and give the 7th and 8th fields meaningful names for later reference:
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#
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# CSV field:
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# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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# entry field:
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fields date, description, , amount, , , somefield, anotherfield
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field assignment
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ENTRYFIELDNAME FIELDVALUE
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This sets a journal entry field (one of the standard names above) to
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the given text value, which can include CSV field values interpolated
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by name (%CSVFIELDNAME) or 1-based position (%N).
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Eg:
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# set the amount to the 4th CSV field with "USD " prepended
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amount USD %4
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# combine three fields to make a comment (containing two tags)
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comment note: %somefield - %anotherfield, date: %1
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Field assignments can be used instead of or in addition to a field
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list.
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conditional block
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if PATTERN
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FIELDASSIGNMENTS...
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if
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PATTERN
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PATTERN...
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FIELDASSIGNMENTS...
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This applies one or more field assignments, only to those CSV records
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matched by one of the PATTERNs. The patterns are case-insensitive reg-
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ular expressions which match anywhere within the whole CSV record (it's
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not yet possible to match within a specific field). When there are
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multiple patterns they can be written on separate lines, unindented.
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The field assignments are on separate lines indented by at least one
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space. Examples:
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# if the CSV record contains "groceries", set account2 to "expenses:groceries"
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if groceries
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account2 expenses:groceries
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# if the CSV record contains any of these patterns, set account2 and comment as shown
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if
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monthly service fee
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atm transaction fee
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banking thru software
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account2 expenses:business:banking
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comment XXX deductible ? check it
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include
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includeRULESFILE
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Include another rules file at this point. RULESFILE is either an abso-
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lute file path or a path relative to the current file's directory. Eg:
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# rules reused with several CSV files
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include common.rules
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TIPS
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Each generated journal entry will have two postings, to account1 and
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account2 respectively. Currently it's not possible to generate entries
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with more than two postings.
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If the CSV has debit/credit amounts in separate fields, assign to the
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amount-in and amount-out pseudo fields instead of amount.
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If the CSV has the currency in a separate field, assign that to the
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currency pseudo field which will be automatically prepended to the
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amount. (Or you can do the same thing with a field assignment.)
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If an amount value is parenthesised, it will be de-parenthesised and
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sign-flipped automatically.
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The generated journal entries will be sorted by date. The original
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order of same-day entries will be preserved, usually.
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REPORTING BUGS
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Report bugs at http://bugs.hledger.org (or on the #hledger IRC channel
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or hledger mail list)
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AUTHORS
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Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> and contributors
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COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Simon Michael.
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Released under GNU GPL v3 or later.
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SEE ALSO
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hledger(1), hledger-ui(1), hledger-web(1), hledger-api(1),
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hledger_csv(5), hledger_journal(5), hledger_timeclock(5), hledger_time-
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dot(5), ledger(1)
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http://hledger.org
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hledger 1.1 December 2016 hledger_csv(5)
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