Before I get really bogged down in this little project, I thought I'd check the current state of the art.

Is there a tool or utility that will allow me to select a particular dataset from a specific Image database and have a flat file created in some transportable format?  Big wish is to have the first record contain the element names enclosed in quotes and separated by tabs and then have each row output so that alphanumeric data is enclosed in quotes and numeric data is formatted with a leading sign and decimal point and each is separated by a tab from the next.

Anyway, does such a beast already exist?