Pulling words from text file

[Twinbrow]

I am not having good luck with this process. I am trying to send a text file to clipboard then parsing it to pull out every word after $ and display it.

hi $my name $is Chad, how are $you today


list

my
is
you

I found this and tried different things but its a bit beyond me.

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TestText := clipboard
p := RegExMatch(TestText, "$ \K\w+", m)
MsgBox, % m

[Chunjee]

But you can't msgbox the results like that.

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/RegExMatch.htm :

If any capturing subpatterns are present inside NeedleRegEx, their matches are stored in a pseudo-array

[Chunjee]

Changed the regex a lot:

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clipboard := "hi $my name $is Chad, how are $you today"
RegExMatch(clipboard, "\$(\w+).*\$(\w+).*\$(\w+)", m)
if (m1) {
	msgbox, % m1
	; => my
}
if (m2) {
	msgbox, % m2
	; => is
}
if (m3) {
	msgbox, % m3
	; => you
}

https://regex101.com/r/SkfJs6/1

[boiler]

Without having to know in advance how many results there are and without limiting the number of possible results:

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TestText := "hi $my name $is Chad, how are $you today"
s := 1
while f := RegExMatch(TestText, "(?<=\$)\w+", m, s)
	TextOut .= m "`n", s:= f + StrLen(m)
MsgBox, % TextOut

Could assign the found words to an array if desired.