The point of what @Stephen23 and I are trying to tell you is that you are asking the wrong question. You want someone to teach you how to hack things, so that you can continue to do your work the wrong way, making more and more complex scripts, without ever wanting to take the important step, and learn to use functions. And yes, it may seem a hurdle to overcome, that moving to functions from scripts is a hard thing to do. But it will get only worse. Your problems will compound exponentially as you keep adding things to those scripts. New scripts will create new variables that stay around and mess things up. If it is complicated now, it will only be far more complicated tomorrow. as it is, you are already nearing the tipping point, where you are finding your code is becoming an unworkable mess.
At some point you will end up with a truly unworkable mess that even you cannot understand and debug. I say debug because even though you are worried about functions making things difficult to debug, they will in fact make things far more easy to debug.
Write ONE function. Just something small, for one small piece of your code. Test it. Verify that it does what it should do. Do you see that you can test a function on its own? Once you know that function does the job it is intended to do, go on to the rest. Do one at a time. Remember this: you eat a programming elephant one byte at a time.
When you have broken down all of your code into functions, combine them. This step is easy to do, since all you need do is combine a few function calls.
The best time to fix a problem is to start today. Yesterday was better yet, but it is too late for that now.
