Finance::qif is a module for working with qif (quicken interchange format) files in perl. finance::qif reads qif data records from a file passing each successive record to the caller for processing. this module also has the capability of writing qif records to a file.

the qif file format typically consists of a header containing a record or transaction type, followed by associated data records. within a file there may be multiple headers. headers are usually followed by data records, however data is not required to always follow a header.

a hash reference is returned for each record read from a file. the hash will have a "header" value which contains the header type that was read along with all supported values found for that record. if a value is not specified in the data file, the value will not exist in this hash.