Many hands make light work.
If you use just about any modern command line, you probably understand the idea of pipes. Pipes are the ability to connect the output from one program to the input of another. For example, you can ...
The problem is this: I have a code which expects data in a specific format. I want a compiled-in "front-end" that reads in whatever format is passed in, converts it, and feeds it to the "core" code.