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@FelisPhasma Converting from a struct with constants used in a header file into a CSV-like format.
Time wasn't an issue, as there were less than a thousand lines to convert, so it took just a few milliseconds anyway. And the tool would only be run every few weeks or so, nobody would have cared even if it had run a minute or two.
I had to implement an internal tool in C++ which parses a file and converts the content into another format.
It did take hundreds of lines of code to get it working, file handling and parsing data in C/C++ is terrible.
I'd rather done it with some scripting language, and additionally implemented it in python as a side-project (in less than an hour and < 20 lines of code, BTW) but it should be C++ "Because that is how we do it here".
At the end the tool was only used for a few weeks, because someone had an idea how to completely avoid the need for that converted data.
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