Stingray 1.3-1

Schema-based file reader

Stingray is a software utility developed for file reading. The application contains a number of components for reading spreadsheets and other flat files. It copes with COBOL files (in EBCDIC) and even COBOL Copybook (or DDE) definitions.

It wraps csv, xlrd, plus several XML parsers into a single, unified "workbook" structure to make applications that work with any of the common physical formats. It also extends the "workbook" to include fixed format files (with no delimiters) and even COBOL files in EBCDIC.

Stingray provides a uniform way to load and use schema information which can be header rows in the individual sheets of a workbook, or it can be separate schema information.