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by egdd » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:19 am
I noticed in the desktop version (Windows 7) 1.2.2 that I cannot import or export line breaks in the note field.
My delimiter character is a {TAB}. Neither a line break using the {ENTER}-key or escaping them using "\n" did work.
If I create a note like this:
in the CSV-file it gets outputted as
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by Nikolay » Mon Oct 19, 2015 2:39 pm
It's csv parser restriction. One transaction should be placed one line in csv file.
But in future it may be an option added to avoid EOL replacements.
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by egdd » Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:49 pm
I see, how unfortunate.
What about a workaround? Can you import and export using escape characters, e.g. a line break is symbolized by "\n"?
In the example that would result in an text to be imported like this:
becomes converted to to the following in the note field:
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by Nikolay » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:16 am
I'll try to use '\n' instead ' ' (break). If it will work - it will released in next vertion.
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by egdd » Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:06 pm
Thank you very much, if that works, that should do it!
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