Hi Paul,

I have a problem with this script. I think it needs some way to reset it, although I have no idea how. If I select a three-character word after having run the script, say, for a 10-character selection, the message box says the new selection, which I plainly see has only 3 characters, has 10 characters, in other words, the previous result seems to remain in the clipboard and is output again after a new selection and new press of the hotkey.

Thanks !

I ran into a problem with the script that I don't know how to solve. Maybe an IF no text is selected, then return, or IF no text selected, show 0 character?

I have no problem running the script on selected text, but if I press the hotkeys without first selecting text, nothing happens, and the script no longer works.

This script would be super useful to my team when translating social media content, but some of my translator are not that comfortable with computers, and I definitely anticipate one of them forgetting to select the text, and they would’nt know how to restart the script.

Any idea how to work around this error?

ClipWait with no parameter will wait indefinitely until the clipboard contains some data. Because there is nothing selected, the script doesn't ever get to the next line.

Please change the ClipWait line to something like this:

ClipWait, 1 ; wait for 1 sec max.

and it will not hang up.

Good luck!

Works perfectly and I learned a new thing! Thanks Jesús!

Here’s my code now, with a different hot key :

^+!c::
Send, ^c
ClipWait, 1 ; wait for 1 sec max
Chars := StrLen(Clipboard)
RegExReplace(Clipboard,A_Space,"",Spaces)
MsgBox % "The highlighted text is " Chars " characters in length and contains " Spaces " spaces."
clipboard = ; Empty the clipboard
return

Glad it helped!