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I have a small AHK script now that removes selected text from one input field, replaces it with ___________ and pastes it in a second input field. Here it is...


As it's written, all text that is cut gets replaced with a single _________ no matter how many words are cut. I'd like to determine how many words are in the text that is cut (by counting spaces with regex I suppose) and insert the same number of blanks.

In other words...


would be...


instead of...


when I cut out...


I don't know how to write regular expressions and don't have time to learn (I'm a medical student who is using AHK along with Ankito make flashcards for studying during lecture. Adding this feature to my existing script would make things even more efficient.

Thanks in advance,
Ryan

You could do it with StringReplace. ErrorLevel stores the number of replaced items:

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Serenity,
Thanks for the help, but it doesn't quite work.

It produces the following in inputOne


and this in inputTwo


It *should* produce this in inputOne


and this in inputTwo

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Tested and it works

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Awesome HugoV. It works like a charm. Thanks so much.

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