Convert 16bit to utf8 characters? Topic is solved

[braunbaer]

I get this text by copying an error message dialog to the clipboard and then assigning text:=clipboard

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        ---------------------------
        Myscript.ahk
        ---------------------------
        Error at line 489 in #include file "C:\Bat\Debug.ahk".
        
        Line Text: abc
        Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.
        
        The script was not reloaded; the old version will remain in effect.
        ---------------------------
        OK   
        ---------------------------

However, instr or regexmatch won't work on this text. The only reason I can imagine is that maybe text is made of 16 bit characters, while regexmatch expects UTF8 Unicode strings. How can I convert the variable text to something compatible with regexmatch? Or is there another reason this does not work?

[boiler]

If that error message is just the text that is being operated on, then I think you need to show the code that is not doing what you expect. What part are you trying to match? The script below works when I use RegExMatch to extract the file name from that text. Does it do something different for you than display the file name?

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Text =
(
        ---------------------------
        Myscript.ahk
        ---------------------------
        Error at line 489 in #include file "C:\Bat\Debug.ahk".
        
        Line Text: abc
        Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.
        
        The script was not reloaded; the old version will remain in effect.
        ---------------------------
        OK   
        ---------------------------
)

RegExMatch(Text, "(?<="").*(?="")", Match)
MsgBox, % Match

[mikeyww]

I also had no trouble with it.

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Clipboard =
MsgBox,,, % "Error at line 489 in #include file ""C:\Bat\Debug.ahk"".`n`nLine Text: abc`n"
          . "Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.`n`n"
          . "The script was not reloaded; the old version will remain in effect."
If Instr(Clipboard, "script was not")
     MsgBox, 64, Success, Found!
Else MsgBox, 48, Failure, Not found!

[braunbaer]

With the text that I posted , everything works fine.

But when I copy this text via clipboard from the dialog box (it's the AHK error message dialog when there is a syntax error when (re)loading the file) and try to regexmatch the variable that I got from the the clipboard, both regexmatch and instr fail, no matter what I search for. I can display the text in a msgbox or write it to a file, but there is no match with anything

[mikeyww]

Show your code.

[braunbaer]

I found the solution: It's enough to append something (like A_Space) to the variable read from the clipboard, then ahk automatically converts the data to UTF-8.

This regexmatch is successful,

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   txt:=clipboard . " "
   rgx:="i)Error at line (\d+) in #include file ""([^""]+)"
   if !regexmatch(txt, rgx, x)
       debug("Error text: ", txt), abort("Can't locate the error")    
   else msgbox RegExMatch successful

while this one, without appended space, fails. The regex itself does not require a space at the end.

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   txt:=clipboard
   rgx:="i)Error at line (\d+) in #include file ""([^""]+)"
   if !regexmatch(txt, rgx, x)
       debug("Error text: ", txt), abort("Can't locate the error")    
   else msgbox RegExMatch successful

[mikeyww]

The following worked for me.

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Clipboard =
MsgBox,,, % "Error at line 489 in #include file ""C:\Bat\Debug.ahk"".`n`nLine Text: abc`n"
          . "Error: This line does not contain a recognized action.`n`n"
          . "The script was not reloaded; the old version will remain in effect."
MsgBox % RegExMatch(Clipboard, "i)Error at line (\d+) in #include file ""([^""]+)")

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[braunbaer]

Sure, you fill the clipboard from ahk, not from an actual error message, so the clipboard contains text in UTF format.

To reproduce the error, you would have to
1. start the script
2. make a change to the script with a syntax error and save it
3. try to reload the script
4. copy the content of the error message to the clipboard with ^c send ^c
5. read the clipbard content and try to find something with instr or regexmatch. It wont work.

But if you append a space to the string that you have read from the clipboard, AHK converts the data and it works again.

P.S. I don't see how you get data into the clipboard. Do you hit ^c manually?

[mikeyww]

It worked when I tried it, but perhaps you have a different sort of message box there.

Yes, I hit ^c manually when the message box appeared. I also tried it with a message box generated from a syntax error, and it worked.

[braunbaer]

Strange indeed. Maybe it depends on the windows version and on the locale