Parse fixed-width files

Question

I have a lot of text files with fixed-width fields:

            
Dave    Thomas    123 Main
Dan     Anderson  456 Center
Wilma   R         


        

Answer 1

CPAN to the rescue!

DataExtract::FixedWidth not only parses fixed-width files, but (based on POD) appears to be smart enough to figure out column widths from header line by itself!