How to pass line breaks to the clipboard in a variable?

[0Ethan0]

Hello fellow AutoIt users

The short story of what I'm trying to achieve is this:

$SomeVariable = "some text with @CRLF so when I copy it to the clipboard it will create a new line while pasting"
ClipPut($SomeVariable)
WinActivate("Whatever Notepad WIndow")
WinWaitActive("Whatever Notepad WIndow")
Send{"^v"}

So I'm trying to find a way to mkae AutoIt understand that a @CRLF character in the variable is a line break.

Is there a way to send a line break via a variable?

Thanks for any input!

Cheers and happy AutoIt-ing !

[AdmiralAlkex]

Easy way is to don't make it part of the text to begin with:

"some text with " & @CRLF & " so when I copy "

[0Ethan0]

Thanks for the answer AdmiralAlkex but the thing is that the text in the variable is a result from some text extraction function (from HTML code) and there's sometime one <div> tag there that I wish to make as a new line.

I know I can do it by manipulating the string/ breaking it into two and than doing what you suggested but was just wondering if there is a way to use ClipPut("@CRLF") or some other wayt so when pasting it'll create a new line; just like when I copy text with line breaks in windows I get line breaks when I paste it.

This entire thing lead me to wonder how to pass TAB and other instances of this sort using ClipPut and pasting - if it's doable at all.

Edited October 23, 2017 by 0Ethan0

[Zedna]

$SomeVariable = "some text with @CRLF so when I copy it to the clipboard it will create a new line while pasting"
$SomeVariable = StringReplace($SomeVariable, '@CRLF', Chr(13) & Chr(10))
ClipPut($SomeVariable)
WinActivate("Whatever Notepad WIndow")
WinWaitActive("Whatever Notepad WIndow")
Send{"^v"}

EDIT: Don't use bold text this way!!

Edited April 25, 2012 by Zedna

[0Ethan0]

Thanks Zedna - it works!

I'm terribly sorry about the bolded text (not sure how it happened, probably when I pasted something), I'll make sure it won't happen again.

Thanks again!