I mostly work with AHK to manipulate text.
It's the easyness to get what you want.
Examples:
MyVar = 5,3,7,9,1,13,999,-4
Sort MyVar, N D, ; Sort numerically, use comma as delimiter.
MsgBox %MyVar% ; The result is -4,1,3,5,7,9,13,999
; Remove all CR+LF's from the clipboard contents:
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `r`n, , All
; Replace all spaces with pluses:
StringReplace, NewStr, OldStr, %A_SPACE%, +, All
Colors = red,green,blue
StringSplit, ColorArray, Colors, `,
Loop, %ColorArray0%
{
this_color := ColorArray%a_index%
MsgBox, Color number %a_index% is %this_color%.
}
String = This is a test.
StringLeft, OutputVar, String, 4 ; Stores the string "This" in OutputVar.
StringRight, OutputVar, String, 5 ; Stores the string "test." in OutputVar.
Functions like
InStr(Haystack, Needle [, CaseSensitive = false, StartingPos = 1, Occurrence =
1])
SubStr(String, StartingPos [, Length])
RegExMatch(Haystack, NeedleRegEx [, UnquotedOutputVar = "", StartingPos = 1])
AHK is very well documented and has a friendyl community.
http://ahkscript.org/docs/AutoHotkey.htm
Of course you can do this things in vb or js or other scriptlanguages.
So i can understand if this would not get it on your to do list.
But i hope
:-)
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