Send Trailing Space? Topic is solved

[09KR0058]

Kinda embarrassed to be asking this after many, many years of using AHK, but how do I send trailing spaces with the Send command?

Here's the two lines of code:
FormatTime, TimeStamp, , M/d/y hh:mmtt
Send %TimeStamp% -

Notice at the end of the Send line, there is a space, dash and a trailing space. However, when this executed, no trailing space is sent. I even tried adding two spaces to the end of that line, but when sent it still ends at the dash.

What am I missing here?

[gregster]

It gets trimmed automatically. But there are ways to prevent this:

Either

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Send %TimeStamp%%A_space%-%A_space%

or

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Send % TimeStamp A_space "-" A_space

I prefer the expression approach ... another way with expressions:

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Send % TimeStamp " - "

Edit: Another one, closer to your original line:

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Send %TimeStamp% -{Space}

{Space}
Space (this is only needed for spaces that appear either at the beginning or the end of the string to be sent -- ones in the middle can be literal spaces)

[09KR0058]

Excellent! Thank yo so much.

I wasn't aware of any of those options, and the expression approach is very cool.