Binary package “ffe” in ubuntu precise

Tool for parsing flat and CSV files and converting them to different formats

 Ffe has many areas of use with fixed lenth and CSV files. It can extract
 particular fields or records from a flat file, convert data from one format
 to an other (CSV to fixed lenth, ...), display flat file content in human
 readable form, etc. In addition, one input file can contain several types of
 records (lines) and the input file structure and output definitions are
 independent, meaning one output format can be used with several input files.
 This input file structure and output format are 'freely' configurable,
 so the output can be formatted e.g. as: fixed length, separated, tokenized,
 XML, SQL,...