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RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 19 May 2023 15:00:55 GMT

Thank you very much! It works perfectly!

Quote:

You can do this with just a Trigger rule that uses a Regex to look for ###-###-#### and then have the Trigger do a text replace on the hyphen. I've attached a screenshot for reference.

The RegEx is

(\d{3}-){2}\d{4}

This part

(\d{3}-){2}

says look for 3 digits followed by a hyphen, and do it twice.
This part

\d{4} says look for 4 digits

Hope that helps!

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:32:25 GMT

You can do this with just a Trigger rule that uses a Regex to look for ###-###-#### and then have the Trigger do a text replace on the hyphen. I've attached a screenshot for reference.

The RegEx is

(\d{3}-){2}\d{4}

This part

(\d{3}-){2}

says look for 3 digits followed by a hyphen, and do it twice.
This part

\d{4} says look for 4 digits

Hope that helps!

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:13:04 GMT

What you want can only be done by c# coding, thus a macro. The macro looks at the/your copied string. If only digits and/ or hyphens it has to remove the hyphens otherwise do nothing. Yes a few lines of code 😁, but I do not think it is in the library yet.

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 12:53:02 GMT

Thanks for all the info. I don't mind buying the Pro version as long as I can make it work.

The problem is that I only want to remove all special characters IF the clipboard content matchs a phone number format.

1. When ctrl-c is pressed
2. Clipboardfusion should check the clipboard content
3. If the content matches a phone number format (e.g. xxx-xxx-xxxx)
4. Remove all non-numeric characters, and update the clipboard content
5. So when I paste it, the phone number is cleaned

Is there any example macro code that I can try? I guess it is only a few lines of code, but I don't know how to write it.

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:56:56 GMT

and visit this discussion: https://www.clipboardfusion.com/Discussions/View/run-trigger-on-double-copy-not-working/?ID=03925d69-ad49-4ec4-a521-604e75d8370b

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:54:14 GMT

and if it is only about hyphens to be replaced you can use a trigger only on (double) ctrl-C. In the trigger settings you can specify to replace a hyphen by nothing or a space or whatever.

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 18 May 2023 08:17:07 GMT

You can run a macro from a trigger. This feature is not available in the free version. So with ctrl-C or double ctrl-C a trigger is activated and in the trigger you can specify/include the macro that replaces the unwanted characters.

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:14:35 GMT

Is it possible to not activate by hotkey? But always trigger automatically whenever I copy a text, it will remove Hyphens?

RE: Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:37:49 GMT

Hi Eric,

We have a script in our repository called "Replace Special Character with Hyphens" that you can download (ClipboardFusion Settings > Macros > Download Premade Macros) and modify. You can add/remove any special characters you want it to modify, and attach a key combination to manually run it when you copy a phone number.

Hope that helps!

Detect phone number and remove all special characters

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:25:54 GMT

Hi, any tips on how to detect when copying a phone number and then remove all special characters from the clipboard? Thank!