Well, structs are lovely things, and are great for reading and writing fixed length records with mixed data types.

However I think that they may be one step too far though.

I suppose you could do something like:
Code:
$aRecordFormat=	"i",		; Unique Pupil Number
   		"c20",		; Student forename
		"c",		; Student middle initial
   		"c20",		; Student family name
		"d"		; Student average score as percentage
 
$aRecordData=	"100",
		"Richard",
		"M",
		"Howarth",
		"99.99"
 
$obj.WriteRecord($aRecordFormat,$aRecordData)


I would have thought at this point you would be looking at ODBC drivers