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How can I do this, given that the number following w could be a variable length? does autohotkey hotstrings support regex or variable pattern matching?

I currenty have w expanding to width:px and the cursor positioned before the px.

:oR0:w::width:px;{left 3}

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  • Which platform and which app are you using?
    – jsejcksn
    Sep 9, 2010 at 7:07
  • windows 7, autohotkey 1.0.48
    – Moin Zaman
    Jan 10, 2011 at 7:28

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Use the hotstrings( regexStr, expandedStr) method defined here and add this to the top of the script above the definition of the function:

 hotstrings( "w(\d+)\s", "width:%$1%px;" )

I've got it working on AutoHotKey 1.0.46.01 on Windows XP.

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  • That looks promising. I can't get it to work however. I pasted the contents hotstrings.ahk at the bottom of my existing script. Then I put the one line call you've got above at the top of my script. Nothing happens when I type w94 and hit space.
    – Moin Zaman
    Jan 10, 2011 at 7:10
  • I think I am missing how to setup the hostrings, I'm finding some info about an .ini file but I don't have an autohotkey.ini file on my machine. Could you clarify how you've got it setup?
    – Moin Zaman
    Jan 10, 2011 at 7:27
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    Ok, I got it. I created a new script called hotstrings.ahk with the function declaration at the bottom and my 1 line hostring definitions at the top. It works. Thanks again!
    – Moin Zaman
    Jan 10, 2011 at 8:02
  • @Moin: Glad it worked for you!
    – yhw42
    Jan 10, 2011 at 15:29

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