I totally agree with you, but in this business that request will go unanswered. I was handed a project with a 48 hour TAT and the hard drive of the customers data. The hard drive consisted of 251 GB of data files. Some of these files are considered metadata files which are the delimited files I was describing earlier. With this much data to work there is no way to go through it manually to figure out the delimiters. This is actually somewhat humorous, I said to my manager that this project is nearly void of any meaningful details. His reponse was " You have to make your own details" Nice!