Loop Read not working on a specific field Topic is solved

[JKnight_xbt33]

Dear all,
I've used Loop read very successfully to read the numbers from text files.

For some reason when trying to read an edit field and trying to send this to notepad this isn't working.

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winTitle := "Customer Complaint - Occurrence Details - Q-Pulse"
winClass := "ahk_class WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.2eed1ca_r9_ad1"
editControl := " WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.2eed1ca_r9"

hWnd1 := WinExist(winTitle)
DllCall("ShowWindow", A_PtrSize ? "Ptr" : "UInt", hWnd1, "Int", 3) ; Maximize window

ControlClick, WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.2eed1ca_r9_ad114
sleep, 1000
Loop, Read, WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.2eed1ca_r9_ad114
%newcomplaint%:= RegExReplace(A_LoopReadLine, "\D")
sleep, 100
Run, Notepad.exe
sleep, 1000 
Send %newcomplaint%

Is there something I am missing here? I've circled in red the field where I am extracting the number

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[boiler]

Loop, Read doesn't get text from a control. That's just for reading from text files. Use ControlGetText.

Also, read up on code blocks. Without them, the only statement getting executed each time through the loop following a Loop command is the one immediately after it.

[JKnight_xbt33]

Thanks for your response. ControlGetText did what I was looking for.....sort of.

It grabs the text from the field which is great. However I wanted to only grab the numerical portion of the text.

Overall though I can work with this for now, not a big deal.

Appreciate your simple answer and help
Best
J

[boiler]

Once you’ve gotten the text from the field, extracting the number from it is very easy. For example, if your variable containing the text from the field is Field, this will put the number part in the variable Num:

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RegExMatch(Field, "\d+”, Num)