That's just half the problem. You then have to put the data in a database and you (usually) don't want to declare varchar(4000) for all your fields. It's irrit

That's just half the problem. You then have to put the data in a database and you (usually) don't want to declare varchar(4000) for all your fields. It's irritating to go through 50 million records and three of them have letters where there should be numbers. Or weird stuff like "$nul".