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Eric Leung75845
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Hi, any tips on how to detect when copying a phone number and then remove all special characters from the clipboard? Thank!
May 17, 2023  • #1
Owen Muhlethaler (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
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!
May 17, 2023  • #2
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Eric Leung75845
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Is it possible to not activate by hotkey? But always trigger automatically whenever I copy a text, it will remove Hyphens?
May 17, 2023  • #3
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C# Clouseau
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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.
May 18, 2023  • #4
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C# Clouseau
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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.
May 18, 2023  • #5
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C# Clouseau
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and visit this discussion: https://www.clipboardfusion.com/Discussions/View/run-trigger-on-double-copy-not-working/?ID=03925d69-ad49-4ec4-a521-604e75d8370b
May 18, 2023 (modified May 18, 2023)  • #6
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Eric Leung75845
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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.
May 18, 2023  • #7
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C# Clouseau
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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.
May 18, 2023  • #8
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
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!
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May 18, 2023  • #9
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Eric Leung75845
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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!
May 19, 2023  • #10
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