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I understand what you mean. This is my favorite reply, as you were very thorough.
This despite the fact that I've evaluated a lot of what you wrote and it's covered ground for me- I used to be a software architect by trade after I was strictly a developer. Still I appreciate the time and effort, and so I'm sure do people visiting the thread.  Thank you for this.
I have run into some maintenance issues, but not insurmountable. I don't like how the code will look to me in a month, and so some refactoring is in order, but I haven't figured out which way to go with it.
A lot of times when I need ideas, I tend to go my own way, having received inspiration from others nonetheless. Asking helps "unblock" me, so don't worry about not being able to address my code without seeing it. I appreciate the input.
I think this is still best procedural, but maybe some of the arguments I pass could be encapsulated as structs or even classes. The other option is to go full bore and make a complete and sensible model out of the whole thing but this requires a lot of code I'll never use, despite being one of my go to techniques. For example I developed a document object model for my regular expressions even though I didn't absolutely need it. It was useful in some cases though. I don't believe that to be true of this particular bit of the code generation process.
Either that, or i haven't landed on the Right Way(TM) to do this and that's why I'm running into anti-patterns. Maybe there's a concise model I just haven't figured out.
I'm great at modeling though. It's one reason I became an architect - the ability to think in several levels of abstraction and model complicated systems even in my head. However, I'd be a fool to think I was the smartest person in any given room, so it's always possible someone more clever than me came up with A Better Way(TM)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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My thought was you were an experienced programmer Your question style caught my eye because it was something I might write. I don't ask highly technical questions; you can always find those answers in manuals, wikis, or blogs.
You know, we all have those gremlins sitting on our shoulders: "Do this, it is the way of the future", "Don't do that, it's bad form". Meh.
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Sgt. Pepper taught...
... Oh, never mind.
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The only thing I remember about that show is Sgt. (Pepper) Anderson pointing out that a masked bank robber was a woman, because she adjusted her bra strap.
Something that male detectives obviously wouldn't have noticed in a million years...
Yes, I was a writing critic right from when I was a tiny tot.
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Didn't make a big impression on me either, don't remember a thing 
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Went to town and we were offered free oil dumplings and a cup of hot coco!
Happy Christmas everyone 
Oliebol - Wikipedia[^]
modified 25-Dec-19 2:48am.
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That's totally unfair! I still have a half of a day to work here... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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you poor so and so
and I bet you don't even have oil dumplings over there
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I'm not sure what oil dumplings are
Think of doughnuts: Oliebol - Wikipedia[^] and you won't be far wrong.
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Quote: doughnuts
Are those fancy donuts?
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No, they are just correctly spelled ... 
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Aaaah! Off korse!
modified 25-Dec-19 10:07am.
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OOO! Doughnuts and hot chocolate! Sounds good!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Doughnuts
Hmm...
Oliebollen are like a variety of doughnut that's made with brick dust.
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Quote: variety of doughnut that's made with brick dust
Confirmed, dark brown bricks are the best
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Mark_Wallace wrote: a variety of doughnut that's made with brick dust.
Dwarf bread?
(From Discworld, for those who are triggered)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Went shopping for my wife's Christmas present (at the last moment of course) and stopped at Café Du Monde for Beignets and Coffee as a present for myself.
If you ever come to New Orleans, be sure to get some.
Oh Yeah!
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Whatever your beliefs, at least we can all join today and say "Thank ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) the Christmas TV add season is over!"
Merry Winterval / Chrimbo / Hanukkah / Saturnalia / ... (Delete as appropriate) to everybody at CP!
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OriginalGriff wrote: TV add season is over
Your complains about that regularly over the years make me strong in my decision not to get on (a TV I mean)... Thanks for that... And Merry Christmas to you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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We were still getting "Get your Christmas food from M&S" adverts just before we went to bed last night, hours after all the shops had actually shut until Thursday ... 
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Yes and the holiday music, shopping lines, etc..
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
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Scares me to think that I agree with you.
Have a happy. I have to go find my lump of coal.
Lou
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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