New and very basic template replacement program released
Yesterday the first release of my new console application, BogBat v0.1.0 was released. I wanted a program to replace templates (or placeholders) in a text file with values from a data file. I didn't need anything fancy such as loops, conditionals, built in text processing functions or white space control. Only simple replacement was needed. And the name, well it's the Bog Bas ic t emplate program. The reason I wanted this program was to help automate some program builds by automatically updating version numbers and dates in source files. To be honest I'd started writing this program in a private GitHub repo in 2023 and forgotten all about it. Upon stumbling across it the other day I decided to finish it and make the repo public. Anyhow, here it is. All the usual warnings about early release code apply: bugs likely, command line and functionality subject to change across v0.x releases. The program takes two input files, one containing the templated text and another contai...