So it's potentially not a great candidate for OOP?

Basically, i'm writing a Spreadsheet to Template program. I've already done it without OOP, but i thought it'd be good to have each line of the spreadsheet as an object.

In other words, I take a config file with a list of the column headings/titles. The program reads the sheet and finds the title row. Each line of the spreadsheet then becomes a hash where the key is the title, and the value is the spreadsheet value. It's then really easy to build templates from the spreadsheet. I use it a lot.

I figured i'd have each line of the spreadsheet as an object and then i could have lot's of little methods i could directly call from the template to modify the data. (Split lists etc).

The problem being i don't know what the title would be so i don't know how i'd access each attribute. The template would know as it would be written by the user in reference to the spreadsheet/config file.

Bad idea to use OOP?

Thanks for all your replies

In reply to Re^2: Object accessors with unknown data by Amblikai
in thread Object accessors with unknown data by Amblikai

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