I have to agree with Jenda -- although I could see use for this in some cases (although I don't have 5.10 installed, so can't test it right now), I often have need for:

• Support for lack of headers (the default when dumping MS Access ... and I think Excel, too) ... possibly just give array but no hash access. (I've also had situations w/ incorrect headers ... two (four) columns were inserted between 'Accel' and 'MPA')
• Stripping header / footer lines
• Variable width final columns (possibly missing)

Less likely for a generic tool, but other issues I run into include:

• Subheadings (so you have two column formats, and subheading data trickles down to the records under it)
• processing pre-formatted HTML (you have to strip the HTML, but keep track of which column it was in so you can assign color / links to a consistent field)

I currently use a script which can handle the first two cases (well, the second one, which handles the first one indirectly, and then passes the remainder to an unpack mask generator from BrowserUK, but modified to handle the third issue

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