Reading CSV files
Most banks and financial institutions provide data in CSV (comma-separated values, or character-separated values) format. hledger can read from any CSV (or SSV, TSV, or other character-separated) file representing transactions. Eg:
"Date","Notes","Amount"
"2023/2/22","DEPOSIT","50.00"
"2023/2/23","TRANSFER TO SAVINGS","-10.00"
# bank.csv.rules # this rules file tells hledger how to read bank.csv
skip 1
fields date, description, amount
currency $
account1 assets:bank:checking
if WHOLE FOODS
account2 expenses:food
if (TO|FROM) SAVINGS
account2 assets:bank:savings
$ hledger -f bank.csv print
2023-02-22 DEPOSIT
assets:bank:checking $50.00
income:unknown $-50.00
2023-02-23 TRANSFER TO SAVINGS
assets:bank:checking $-10.00
assets:bank:savings $10.00
See also: Tutorial: Import CSV data
(Part of hledger by example.)