Stefan Viljoen wrote:

>> Now, if I knew a lot about Access and very little about Haskell, the
>> most efficient solution might have been different... ;-)
> 
> Probably, though as another poster said, the first thing I'd have tried is
> "piping" the file through Excel.

And that would have been because I don't know squat about Haskell. 

After that, (if Excel didn't solve it) I'd have tried a commandline PHP 
script. Again the "hammer-nail" paradigm. I guess most people will use the 
tool or language they know best to solve a problem in the quickest, most 
direct way.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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