Send % as a keystroke

[rwarshawski]

Hello all-

I have a need to send the percent sign % as part of text string ? eg, "... activity will be assessed as ___ % of normal."
I am a rudimentary user of scripts and I don't really know what the % key means in a script.
Thanx!

Bob

[gregster]

Well, it has a special meaning - it is used for retrieving the contents of variables and, as a single %, for "forcing expression syntax":
see https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm

So, you'll have to "escape" the character or make otherwise clear that it is a literal %:
Some Options:

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send ... activity will be assessed as ___ `% of normal.		; escaped %
send % "... activity will be assessed as ___ % of normal."	 ; forced expression
; or use SendInput
sendInput ... activity will be assessed as ___ `% of normal.