Text Manipulation Functions?

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Hi all—

I'd like to find a way for KM to type the first 6 characters of a variable (but not the full variable) into a field. (So if the variable has been assigned the value "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ," I'd like KM to type "ABCDEF.") In a spreadsheet I might use a LEFT() function to achieve this, but I don't see any likely candidates in the KM functions list.

Am I missing a function? Any other clever ways to get that to happen?

Thanks in advance!

David

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Try the Substring action documented in the wiki here: https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Substring_of_Variable_or_Clipboard

That’ll get you the characters you want then to work with.

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So it will! Thanks so much, tiffle!

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Hey David,

The SubString action is very useful, although I'll nearly always opt for a regular expression myself.

Just 'cause I can.  :sunglasses:

-Chris

Get Substring of String on the Clipboard.kmmacros (5.4 KB)

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Just 'cause I can. :sunglasses:

Cue the Edsger Dijkstra question

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles ... belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

: -)

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Yes; quite.

-ccs