Remove currency symbols and thousands separators from a CSV of transactions
Exports often write amounts the way people read them: $1,234.56, £123.45 or 12.50 EUR. An importer that expects a plain number reads those as text. Choose the file below: the page works in your browser, rewrites each amount as a plain decimal, shows the first 20 cleaned rows and lists every line it left out, with the reason.
Clean your CSV export
The cleaner detects the delimiter (comma, semicolon or tab), looks for a header row with a date column and an amount column, and writes eight fixed columns, comma-delimited: date, description, amount, currency, fee, net, reference and source. It recognises common header names in English, Spanish, German and French, such as Date, Fecha, Buchungstag, Amount, Importe, Betrag and Montant.
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The cleaning logic is checked by an automated test script that runs the engine file of this site over six synthetic sample files and a set of checks of the parsing rules; it ran in a sandbox before this site was published and finished with no failed check. The script does not open this page in a browser, does not test the licence key step, and nothing was tested against a real export from any provider. Use the free preview to check your own file.
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Warnings
Lines not parsed
Lines dropped
Preview of the cleaned rows
| line | date | description | amount | currency | fee | net | reference | source |
|---|
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How currency marks and thousands separators are read
| In the export | amount in the cleaned file | currency in the cleaned file |
|---|---|---|
| 1,234 | 1234.00 | (empty) |
| 5,000.00 | 5000.00 | (empty) |
| -$1.56 | -1.56 | (empty) |
| £123.45 | 123.45 | GBP |
| 12.50 EUR | 12.50 | EUR |
- Currency signs are taken out of the number. The dollar, euro, pound, yen, rupee, rouble, won, shekel, lira, hryvnia, naira, baht and cent signs are removed wherever they sit in the value.
- A sign that names one currency fills the currency column.
£becomes GBP and€becomes EUR. The dollar and yen signs are used by several currencies, so they leave the column empty, unless a prefix settles it:US$is written as USD andCA$as CAD. - Three letters next to the number are read as a currency code.
12.50 EURandUSD 20.00both work. The letters are not checked against a list of currencies. - A currency column of the file comes first. When the row has a value in a currency column of its own, that value is written, in capitals.
- Thousands separators are removed.
5,000.00becomes5000.00. Spaces and apostrophes between digits are removed too:1 234.56becomes1234.56. - Amounts get at least two decimals.
1,234becomes1234.00; longer decimals are kept as they are. - A value that is not a number is not turned into zero.
1.2.3is refused: the row is left out and listed under "Lines not parsed" with its line number and the text found. - Amounts are never converted between currencies. When the cleaned rows hold more than one currency, the report says so in a warning.
One case cannot be settled from the file: when every separator in the amounts is a single one followed by exactly three digits, such as 1,234, the cleaner reads the file as a decimal-point file and says so in a warning. Decimal-comma files are covered on their own page.
In a comma-delimited file, an amount with a thousands comma has to be inside double quotes in the input to stay one field.
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