String with character "

[Johell]

I need to create an email and I am using this code:

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MailItem.Subject: = clipboard "-> code:"

Unfortunately, when inside the clipboard there are quotes, the string "-> Code:" is not printed.

For example when the clipboard contains this text:

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Sample text "in quotation marks" and "still quotation marks"

I have the error mentioned above, how can I fix it?

[boiler]

You have a space between the : and =:

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MailItem.Subject: = clipboard "-> code:"

Change to:

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MailItem.Subject := clipboard "-> code:"

[Johell]

there is no space between : and = was just a typo, my code is this:

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MailItem.Subject := clipboard " - Code: "

yet the error still presents itself

[boiler]

So I guess you’re saying the following test code shows what you want in the MsgBox correctly, but that’s not how it gets loaded in the subject line of the email. Is that correct?

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Clipboard = Sample text "in quotation marks" and "still quotation marks"
Subject := clipboard "-> code:"
MsgBox % Subject

[Johell]

Exactly, from the msgbox it appears as it should appear, while on the subject of the mail, the final part is missing, that is: "-> Code:"
Why? Is it possible to solve?

[boiler]

I can't reproduce the problem. This Outlook email:

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...was produced with this code:

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Clipboard = Sample text "in quotation marks" and "still quotation marks"
MailItem := ComObjActive("Outlook.Application").CreateItem(0)
MailItem.Subject := Clipboard "-> code:"
MailItem.Display

[Johell]

I found that the problem stems from the source I copy the string from: a pdf file.
Obviously, some annoying characters are generated in the copy. Is there a function that cleans the string while keeping only standard text characters?

[boiler]

I don't know of an existing one, but this does that:

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MsgBox, % CleanString("here is some text with some unwanted™¤µ characters ")
return

CleanString(str) {
	loop, % StrLen(str)
		if ((c := Ord(SubStr(str, A_Index, 1))) >= 32) && (c <= 126)
			clean .= Chr(c)
	return clean
}

[boiler]

Or this may be faster/better:

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CleanString(str) {
	return RegExReplace(str, "[^[:ascii:]]")
}

[Johell]

Thanks a lot it works