KM macro to paste a mailing address into an online form?

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I am looking for a way to take a mailing address copied in a standard plain-text format, and paste it into online forms.

Address format would be similar to:

John Smith
123 Main St.
Anytown, OH 12345

The online forms would be the standard ones, broken up into separate fields for name, street address, city, sate, ZIP.

I want to be able to highlight the address text block, and then through a series of keyboard commands (or any suggested ideal method) be able to quickly paste the relevant info into the appropriate fields.

I am currently demoing KM, but if it can do this, it alone will be worth the license and I will purchase immediately.

There is an old thread discussing this exact situation, but they inconveniently discussed the solution via email.

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Parsing addresses is difficult, but assuming your addresses are all in exactly that form, then you can use a Search Clipboard action like this:

Regex: “\A(.*)[\r\n]+(.*)[\r\n]+(.*), *(\w+) *(\d+)”

After running that macro, you can use an Insert Text by Pasting action to paste %Variable%Street% to paste thre street address. I would make a set of macros all with the same hot key, Say ⌘⌥⌃⇧-A (using a Hyper Key on the Caps Lock key), and have them named appropriated:

00)Parse Address
01)Name
02)Street
03)City
03)State
03)Zip

the first one does the parsing, and the rest do the pasting, so you would do:

Copy (address), ⌘⌥⌃⇧-A, P (Parse - which could include the Copy step) then ⌘⌥⌃⇧-A,N to paste the Name, ⌘⌥⌃⇧-A, C to paste the City, etc.

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