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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Data table text I/O package?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:30:35 +0100
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:

> I do quite a lot of work, where I manipulate data stored in
> (tabulator separated) text files [1].  Does anybody know of a
> package which handles the inclusion of a header line with the column
> names in an elegant way?  It should preferably include automated
> testing that the header is correct, when a file is opened, and
> automated creation of the header when a file is created.

I think this sounds like an ASIS application. You might look at Stephe
Leake's Auto_Text_IO .. Google finds it easily enough.