Darrel, I see that you "highly dislike" my method. That's OK. My code still runs.

It takes up code space, but I don't mess with chips with 1K of FLASH.
I start out with a large list and eliminate lines as I need until I get it down to just what I need in the end. By the time I have used a chip 4-5 times, I'm left with 10 lines of configs or so. In the meantime, I have learned a lot about what the chip can do.