There is another "preprocessor" I use on occasion called CodeWright.

as an example if you need a const array of 0 to 49 (who would, but it works as an example) you could do

1) create
.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9,

2) copy 5 times
3) substitute '.' on one line at the time
4) fix start and end

Erik