Hi Nora,

I'll start with some suggestions to your second question about how to better implement the search and replacement items:

Separating search and replacement parts by a tab is smart, but you don't need to put these into your script. It is way easier to maintain a simple text file where you add them and then read that text file into a variable like this:

FileRead, vList, vListFile.txt

In order to run your search and replace, just use a simple loop:

Send, ^a
Send, ^c
Loop, Parse, vList, `r, `n
{
    oTemp := StrSplit(A_LoopField, "`t")
    FixString := StrReplace(FixString, oTemp.1, oTemp.2)
}
SendInput, %FixString%

As for the tag question, I need to look a bit deeper into this, but I fear it won't be easy without (again) the help of Studio APIs.

Kind regards,
Raphaël

By the way, do you know this Studio app, TermInjector? I haven't played around with it for a very long time, but depending on what the exact purpose of your script is, the app might also do the trick natively, and then  tags should be fine.

1) If you don't provide the complete path of the file in the script, but only its name, then it needs to be in the same folder as the script, otherwise wherever you want:

• FileRead, vList, vListFile.txt → the file "vListFile.txt" must be in the same folder as the script
• FileRead, vList, C:\Users\ndia\Documents\vListFile.txt → the file is stored in the folder "My Documents"

If you move the file later on, then you have to update the file location accordingly in your script.

2) That is up to you too, since you define the separator yourself in the script:

• StrSplit(A_LoopField, A_Tab) → a tab is used, but you could replace that with a pipe character or whatever you like, both here and in the file

Edit: typos

Hi Nora,

Since you use ClipboardAll at the start of your script, you know that it is different from Clipboard: ClipboardAll is binary, while Clipboard is just text.

See https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Clipboard.htm

When you use "FixString := Clipboard" in your script, you have already reduced your string to text, i.e. the tags are gone.

The AutoHotKey webpage above indicates that "altering a binary-clipboard variable (by means such as StringReplace) will revert it to a normal variable, resulting in the loss of its clipboard data", so even if you use "FixString := ClipboardAll", subsequent StringReplace commands would reduce FixString to text.

The webpage also states that  "binary-clipboard variables may be passed to functions by value (formerly they only worked ByRef)", so if you could figure out the binary format used you might be able to write your own routine to make changes to the clipboard data, but I suspect it wouldn't be all that easy.

I have never tried to deal with this binary data, but maybe one of the AutoHotKey experts has some experience in this area ...

Best regards,
Bruce Campbell
ASAP Language Services