DONE: ahk Find and Replace

[DougleBug]

Hello All,

I need some help with ahk, I'm at the 'Hello World' stage and a bit lost with this.

Hoping to press a short-cut and ahk will find @1 and replace it with what is in my clip board.

I think the command is StringReplace but not sure on how to code it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Doug.

[skwire]

Hello, DougleBug, and welcome to the site.

ahk will find @1

Can you explain this in more detail?  Find "@1" where/how, exactly?

[DougleBug]

Hi skwire,

Working in Chrome find @1 (or something unique) within a text field, and replacing it with what is in your clip-board.

Thanks,

[skwire]

Working in Chrome find @1 (or something unique) within a text field, and replacing it with what is in your clip-board.

Right, I understand that.  What I need to know is how are you determining the text to be searched through?  AHK doesn't just "know" which text you want searched through.  Do you have this text selected/highlighted or something like that?

[DougleBug]

Just the web page really, but I could select the text.

A bit like this Quick Reply box, press one key to chance 'text' for example in to what you have copied.

Edit: before posting, while still editable.

[skwire]

Consider the following example:

Code: (autohotkey)

^1:: ; Ctrl+1
{
    mySavedClip := Clipboard
    Clipboard := "" ; Flush the clipboard
    SendInput, ^c
    ClipWait, 2
    StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, @1, % mySavedClip, All
}
Return

Because programmatically getting text from a browser is an exercise in frustration, you must first highlight the text you want searched through and then press the Ctrl+1 hotkey.  After doing that, any occurrences of @1 will be replaced with what was originally on your clipboard and then the new text is put back on the clipboard.

[DougleBug]

Wow that works bob on, thank you very much for you help in this.

This is just what I was after, Doug.

[skwire]

You're welcome.  I'm glad to hear it works for you.