Problems with simple search replace in clipboard macro

[tiffle]

Because you don’t provide examples of how your macro is misbehaving it’s hard to give sensible advice. For example, examples of the clipboard content before/after and the search/replace strings that demonstrate the problem.

In the meantime, you might want to look at this thread which might provide some insight:

Subroutine to Perform Search/Replace Using Variable Patterns

A user was trying to perform Search/Replace operations using regex patterns stored in KM Variables and ran into a problem as discussed in depth here: It turns out that if the patterns contain capture groups and their replacement tokens then using KM variables to store these patterns won't work since it would require KM to apply token expansion twice (once for the variable token and secondly for the string held in said variable). In any case a solution was found and I've created a generally-us…