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I feel like such a newb asking so many questions, not knowing where to begin trying to figure things out on my own.

I've made so many tedious tasks at work so simple and smooth so far, every day I find a new use for AHK.

ANYWAY......

So I'm trying to figure out a way to detect when a MAC address is typed in. (It's always 12 characters long, and hexadecimal (0-9, A-F)

After seeing a MAC address, I just want to send a {tab}.


I have the same thing for a serial number, but I think I can figure that out once I get the mac field taken care of.

Thanks in advance!

Look at StringLen. That should let you determine the length of the string.

A thought would be to parse that string on the : and make sure the parts created are each 2 characters, to hopefully make sure it is a MAC addres.

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SilverEdge78

Hrm. Basically what I'm doing is I have a barcode scanner that works as if you actually typed what it scans.

I scan a barcode with a MAC address (no spaces or colins), tab to the next field, scan a serial number, tab to the next field, scan a custom barcode that triggers a hotstring that saves the entry and opens a new window for the next entry.

I'm trying to eliminate the manual tabbing. (I know, lazy )

Hey, that's what scripting is all about. I don't even want to tell you how many things I've scripted to avoid annoyances. If that's the case, then you just need to check if the StringLen is 12 or not I guess. Only other thing I might suggest is that you check to make sure you're in the proper field when checking.

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SilverEdge78

you may need Regex powered Dynamic hotstrings. It may or may not suit your needs.

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That looks like it should do what I need, it should be easy enough to build a regex that matches my serial number string or mac address string.

I was hesitant to reply in that thread, but am I doing this correctly:

Copy and paste entire function to my autohotkey.ahk, and use the the example anywhere else in the file?

My script seems to reload without errors, but my examples don't expand. Maybe I'm making some stupid newbie mistake?

Thx

Please don't be.

Save the script and #Include it in another script file where you have your hotstrings. If you used your StdLib you won't need to use include.

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