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I'm no expert on AutoHotkey by any means, and While I have tested your code above to make sure exactly what it was doing, I don't fully understand how... Rapte_Of_Suzaku, could you break down for me how this is "parsing" the text and coming up with %match1%? When I first looked at you code I thought it was simply finding the 1 match but after doing the editing I did in the previous post it appears that it is finding the last match, I was going to suggest using StringSplit command and a loop to find the last match, but your RegEx appears to be doing it automatically...

I *think* I've got it. The RegEx stuff is not working for me. Sounds like user error.

You can probably see what I'm trying to accomplish here:



How would I make this work? Seems like a comma or colon is not in there. :/

Length is the total length of the selection.
pos is the first time in that selection you find the dashes.
29 should be the number to cut out of the first of the selection.

That *should* work and *should * work for the other responses I get from CRT.

I tell you it really urks people trying to help you when you state something is not working for you and do not give an explenation, other than "I'm a newbie, so here is what I'm trying to do instead"...


I have no clue what you are doing here because I have no before/after code...

Now please tell me what your problem with RegEx is, so that we can address the problem... Based on what you have explained that you want to do here, it is the solution "Period"...

Everything is right there and was explained in my reply.



I want to save the variable into newpos. %Length% minus %pos% minus 29. I explained everything below my code. I also explained that using RegEx was confusing and was not working for me. The entire code:



I've searched all morning and did not find a clear way to do a simple subtraction.

I really wish you would say why its not working, or how its not working, instead of "its not working"
Try:


Do not use your Mouse moves with the above script.

The above code has and still gives me a blank message box.

If I do not select the text by mouse, how do I select the text?

As far as saying "it doesn't work", I think it's obvious what I'm trying to do here:


The variable Length minus the variable pos minus the number 29. Put all that math into the variable newpos. I think I have the rest of the script working, so I did not post the entire script, only the line I had the issue with.

Try:


Again, no mouse movements required.

As previously explained, 'select all' selects the ENTIRE contents. Not just what is inside the window, but the 5 miles of text above it. I would use it if I could.

As I have previously tried to state (Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:42 am) the RegEx command is scanning through the entire clipboard and only grabbing the text at the end of the clipboard that matches

Last Name,

3 lines of text.

Addy1
Addy2
Addy3
Addy4

3 lines of text.

Thanks

"The above code has and still gives me a blank message box. "

"As far as saying "it doesn't work", I think it's obvious what I'm trying to do here:
Code:
newpos = %Length% - %pos% - 29"

Okay, RegEx is not working for me. We'll try this. How do you subtract two variables?

I think it is because you have 15 "-" try...

I counted 27 -'s so I put 27 in there. Still not working. :/ But I finally tweaked this enough to get it to work.



Length is not the same as length. Out of desperation, I put the variable in all lowercase. Doesn't make total sense to me, but that did the trick.

That's why I asked earlier if you got 15 of them every time...