I have a macro to indent left or right a wiki list item or heading levels using a keyboard shortcut like <Cmd><Ctrl><Alt><Right/Left> which works by adding or removing ‘#’ from an existing string.
example Markdown:
## Heading 2
* List item1
** List item 2
I am trying to make this more generic by making the macro check if the left most character is a ‘*’ or a ‘#’. if so add or remove that character.
Any suggestions how I can check if a substring is Equal to a Unicode Character (example %23%) ?
A switch case with pasted character worked. 
Seems there is no CHR( ) function for keyboard maestro.
Wished there was an option to pass a variable to a bash script and get the returned result. Then coulda asked ruby/python to do that work.
If you show you're existing macro, I am sure it can be easily extended to work with both # and *.
A substring of what? If Variable Contains or Matches will do that.
Not really, no. You can do that in a bunch of ways with a script though.
That is what the Execute a Shell Script action does.
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