I made some time today to undertake the unpleasant task of sorting out an issue with
one of my scripts. The problem was not difficult, per se, it was – to quote Strong Bad – a quivering pile of not fun. I would have preferred to have been doing something more stimulating and enjoyable.
The bird's eye view of the problem was that I had a script reading random, formatted data from a file, but there were
two different types of data that I needed to read. I had to think of a way of adding a second field of data without reorganizing the overall data structure.
I made it happen. It wasn't a pretty solution, but now my beautiful creation can (metaphorically speaking)
dance and sing! And now that this is done, I can focus on some
real fun stuff.