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wzstats is a simple 'console' comandline program I wrote to convert the csv-like wz data to a more human-readable format,features:

1.convert wz txt to new format txt
2.convert new format txt to wz txt
3.supports the following txt's:
weapons.txt,templates.txt,structures.txt,bodypropimd.txt,
assignweapons.txt,structureweapons.txt,research.txt,pre_research.txt,researchfunctions.txt,researchstructures.txt,resultcomponent.txt,resultstructure.txt

sample:(old template for python medium cannon tracks)
PythonMedCnTrks,472,Body11ABT,ZNULLBRAIN,ZNULLCONSTRUCT,ZNULLECM,6,tracked01,ZNULLREPAIR,ZNULLREARM,DROID,DefaultSensor1Mk1,1

sample:(new template data for python medium cannon tracks)
[PythonMedCnTrks]
templateID = 472; compBody = "Body11ABT"; compBrain = "ZNULLBRAIN"; compConstruct = "ZNULLCONSTRUCT"; compECM = "ZNULLECM";
playerId = 6; compPropulsion = "tracked01"; compRepair = "ZNULLREPAIR"; compRearm = "ZNULLREARM"; type = "DROID";
compSensor = "DefaultSensor1Mk1"; numWeapons = 1;

note:it only works with the weapons.txt and templates.txt included,because I added new fields such as 'compRearm' to those 2 files recently.

source code is available on mailinglist,it's written in C with ANSI 'main()' so linux user shouldnt have any problems compiling it(my linux installation is still unfinished due to borked internet d/l speed...)

Feel free to post any suggestion or feedback

is whitespace important in the new format? as in, could we write ours to have one statement per line?

no all whitespace outside " " will be ignored and discarded,I just make the converter to put a whitespace after each variable name/variable value to make it easier to read.

Currently it's set to 5 variables/fields per line,you can change it to whatever via #define MAX_VALUES_PER_LINE,though it will become unreadable,esp with the 50+ fields per line weapons.txt...

Basically this tool is used to make editing wz .txt files/modding easier:
1.convert old txt to new format
2.makes changes to new format file so you dont suffer from comma count/field meaning guessing anymore...
3.convert the new format file back to old txt wz uses

i had meant the opposite: something like
#define MAX_VALUES_PER_LINE 1

cool. is the code portable enough to make linux and mac binaries?

not sure.I havent tried to compile it under linux yet,it just uses the stdlib,stdio,string,should work under linux since I dont think those standard C libs will have any portability issues.