pepperpod

I use MX 3.7d with Vista, though like Terry my default browser is Firefox. I tried Scasper's troublesome macro and had exactly the same result as Scasper: 2 instances of IE7, one running minimized showing 'connecting' all the time, the other running maximized showing the university login page. I'm not able to offer any help I'm afraid but I thought it worth reporting as it appears to add further support to it being Vista/IE7 related.

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My apologies Terry. Your script works perfectly if I have a CRLF at the end of the 3rd line. When I was copying 3 lines of text to the clipboard I highlighted the 3 lines to copy, and of course the last line didn't contain CRLF. All's well now. Many thanks indeed.

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Terry, that's really very kind of you to go to so much trouble. I appreciate it very much. As you can imagine I tried it straight away but unfortunately when I ran it, it just hung. Still, I'll study your script in detail and hopefully learn from it.

Maybe an example of what I'm hoping to do will help. I have 3 lines on the clipboard, such as:

Joe Bloggs

user.name@isp.com

This is some descriptive text

I want to convert it to:

<strong>Joe Bloggs</strong>

<a href="mailto:user.name@isp.com">user.name@isp.com</a>

<em>This is some descriptive text</em>

As you see in line 2, I've used the contents of that line twice, hence the reason I thought saving each line to a variable would be helpful to me.

I wrote a script to do the above in AutoHotKey, but I do so much text processing in MEX that I thought it would make sense to use MEX for this too.

Thanks again,

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I'm afraid I'm struggling! I understand how to set a single variable for CRLF but not how to search for that variable in a string. The 'Variable Set Integer %N1% from Position of Text in Variable %T1%' appears to require some specific text to search for, not a variable. Where am I going wrong?

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Many thanks Kevin. You've given me enough pointers to work through this myself and it will be an excellent learning exercise. I doubt I'd have been able to do it on my own.

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I'm looking at using MEX to add some html tags to the beginning and end of lines of text copied to the clipboard. I copy 3 lines of text to the clipboard and want to add one html tag to the beginning/end of the first line, another to the beginning/end of the second line and yet another to the third line. Can I do this directly on the clipboard contents or do I have to first save the clipboard to a file and then use something like the sample macro 'process text file'. Ideally I'd like each line of text in the clipboard saved as a variable. Any help here much appreciated as I'm a MEX novice.

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