Developer Thinking - Reusable Calculations
You really can't afford to keep doing the same things over and over again. Yet, this may be exactly where you're stuck. What you really need is "Developer Thinking"!
It's a mindset regarding your approach to your immediate issue. Deciding to spend some extra time crafting a solution which will solve the problem, and at the same time, fit a variety of other situations.
Using the simple example of wrapping field values with inner HTML table tags, I reveal that spending that extra amount of time generates a much more powerful result!