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• [Solved] Snippet with special characters

  Roje > 2023-04-28 03:26

  Hi All
  
  I seem to be having problems sending a snippet which contains special characters like "%" or "$". In this case I'm sending the snippet as a password. The resulting message comes back as "incorrect password entered".
  But when I do a straight copy and paste (well, a keystroke send), the password works fine.
  
  Is there any reason why passwords which contain these special characters are not sent correctly as a snippet? Does the snippet content perhaps have to be entered in a different way in the Content box?
  e.g. connect##7
  
  Incidentally, I'm using the "macro" option for these snippets, as they need to be sent as keystrokes.
  
  Best
  Roger
  

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  Update: When I test sending the snippet to a flat Notepad window, it seems to just ignore these characters completely.
  
  So for example: "roger##1" is sent as "roger1"
  

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  [Resolved]
  I've discovered what my problem is. These characters need to be enclosed in curly brackets for literal translation.
  
  So in my example, the snippet content should be entered as "roger{#}{#}1". As outlined here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/lib/Send.htm
  
  
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