Stupid text formats! Everybody loves stupid text formats! Right?

What, you don’t? Well, Microsoft sure does:

From office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA100069051033.aspx > Formatted files > > In a formatted file, hyphens (-) and pipe characters (|) are used to organize > the content in a grid. The records appear as rows, and fields appear as > columns. The field names appear in the first row. > > ——————————————– > | ID | E-mail Address | > ——————————————– > | 1 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 2 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 3 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 4 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 5 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 6 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 7 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 8 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > | 9 | [email protected] | > ——————————————– > > You only have the option of creating a formatted file when you choose to > export the data in a table, query, form, or report along with the formatting. > A formatted file includes only those records and fields that are included in > the source object or displayed in the current view. Hidden columns and > filtered rows are not exported.

This library is tiny and simple. Import files in the above format into something sane.

Ideas:

- Generic text format converter.....?