Gah story of my life - hours/days of grueling work trying to solve a problem, then someone say 'why don't you just use $tool_that_does_exactly_what_you_want_but

Gah story of my life - hours/days of grueling work trying to solve a problem, then someone say 'why don't you just use $tool_that_does_exactly_what_you_want_but_better?'. Code goes in the bin.