Thanks for the comment! ;-)

You are absolutely right and in fact I did notice this and a few other similar modules on the CPAN. Unfortunately, this is a few feet away from what I'm trying to accomplish. Being that close in principle, I even thought of extending original modules to allow me to pull data directly from an SQL database. Further, I don't need a lot of fency manipulation routines such as offered by the module (Data::CTable). And, too, I don't need to keep data in tabular files.

Cheers,

vladb.

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