How to make AHK to type braces (curly brackets) Topic is solved

[ujm]

A simple question, and probably answered several times already, but the answer seems hard to find. I want AHK to type a text that includes the braces { and }, which AHK normally uses to define blocks. How to do that? Thanks for your help!

[geek]

Wrap them in {}
Or use SendRaw to disable all {} stuff

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Send, {{} ; Sends {
Send, {}} ; Sends }
Send, {{}{}} ; Sends {}
SendRaw, {} ; Sends {}
Send, {Raw}{} ; Sends {}

[ujm]

As easy as that, eh? Thanks a lot, GeekDude!

[Guest]

This solution works for curly braces in short cuts as well (thanks)

e.g.

\scpr::${{}PWD/html/release/{}}

yielding

${PWD/html/release/}

[Bluscream]

Thanks for the tip, i made a little snippet to escape them:

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EscapeCurly(text) {
    ; str := StrReplace(str, "{", "{{}" ; Sends {
    ; str := StrReplace(str, "}", "{}}" ; Sends }
    ; return StrReplace(str, "{}", "{{}{}}" ; Sends {}
    Loop, Parse, text              ; retrieves each character from the variable, one at a time
    {
        if (A_LoopField == "{") {
            str .= "{{}"
        } else if (A_LoopField == "}") {
            str .= "{}}"
        } else {
            str .= A_LoopField
        }
    }
    return str
}