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Hi,

I am trying to use Autoit for the first time and stuck on a problem. My program has to make the all combinations from a subset of ASCII table and is reproduced below:

; Declare a 1-dimensional array, and create an array showing the Possible Combinations
Local $aArrayesp[26] = ['"','@',"$","%",'&',"*","(",")","_","+","=","-","'","?",":",">","<",",",".",";","/",'^',"~",'']
Local $aArraymin[26] = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
Local $aArraymai[26] = ["A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"]
Local $aArraytot[89] = ['"',"!","@","#","$","%","&","*","(",")","_","+","=","-","'","?",":",">","<",",",".",";","/","^","~"," ","0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"," ","A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"]
Local $aArrayespmai[52] = ['"','@','$','%','&','*','(',')','_','+','=','-',"'","?",':','>',"<",',','.',';','/','^','~','','A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z']


HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

Run ("C:\Windows\system32\Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")

For $1 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
   $chave = $aArrayesp[$1]
   Send("1 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
   For $2 = 0 to UBound($aArrayespmai)-1
      $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2]
      Send("2 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
      For $3 = 0 to UBound($aArrayespmai)-1
           $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3]
         Send("3 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
         For $4 = 0 to UBound($aArrayespmai)-1
            $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4]
            Send("4 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
            For $5 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
                  $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4] & $aArrayesp[$5]
               Send("5 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
               For $6 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
                        $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4] & $aArrayesp[$5] & $aArrayesp[$6]
                  Send("6 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
                  For $7 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
                     $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4] & $aArrayesp[$5] & $aArrayesp[$6] & $aArrayesp[$7]
                     Send("7 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
                     For $8 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
                                 $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4] & $aArrayesp[$5] & $aArrayesp[$6] & $aArrayesp[$7] & $aArrayesp[$8]
                        Send("8 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
                        For $9 = 0 to UBound($aArrayesp)-1
                                    $chave = $aArrayesp[$1] & $aArrayespmai[$2] & $aArrayespmai[$3] & $aArrayespmai[$4] & $aArrayesp[$5] & $aArrayesp[$6] & $aArrayesp[$7] & $aArrayesp[$8] & $aArrayesp[$9]
                           Send("9 For" & $chave & "{ENTER}")
                        Next
                     Next
                  Next
               Next
            Next
         Next
      Next
   Next
Next


Func Terminate()
    Exit
EndFunc   ;==>Terminate

RESULT:

1 For"
2 For""
3 For"""
4 For""""
5 For"""""
6 For""""""
7 For"""""""
8 For""""""""
9 For"""""""""
9 For""""""""@
9 For""""""""$
9 For""""""""%
9 For""""""""&
9 For""""""""*
9 For""""""""(
9 For"""""""")
9 For""""""""_
9 For""""""""
9 For""""""""=


... Lines with combintions supressed to reduce size

...

9 For"""""""_
9 For""""""""
9 For"""""""
9 For""""""":
9 For""""""">
9 For"""""""<                          PROBLEM WITH A COMBINATION BETWEEN ' " ' AND "<" . I THINK THE CODE BEGAN TO RETROCED THE COMBINATIONS

9 For"""""""<              
9 For""""""">
9 For""""""":
9 For"""""""
9 For"""""""9 For"""""""^          ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH A COMBINATION BETWEEN ' " ' AND " ' " APPARENTLY
9 For"""""""
9 For"""""""
9 For"""""""
8 For"""""""=
9 For"""""""="
9 For"""""""=@
9 For"""""""=$
9 For"""""""=%
9 For"""""""=&
9 For"""""""=*

Well, I have tried many combinations to change " and ' in order to make the Autoit compilator understand this is a combination of characteres and not a command itself but unfortunately I think it misunderstood that sometimes. It also becames crazy and started to make many "calls" to external programs such as Outlook, Media Player, etc.

I hope somebody could help me with this problem or have an idea to change the code for a better one.

Thanks

Edited by Melba23
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That program is not making calls to external applications. What's happening is you're using Send(), which sends keystrokes to the active window. For some reason the other applications must have become active (like, either you clicked on them, or they popped up themselves for some reason).

Using Send() like this program does makes no sense, at least I think so. There are many ways to do the same thing your current program does but much faster, better and more flexibly. But rather than simply rewriting your current program into a more efficient version, I suggest the following: you explain what you want the program to do, and others can then suggest better ways to do it. Not to be mean, but it would probably be a good idea to start from scratch :)

And welcome to the forum!

/edit: and oh yeah, stop focusing on the difference between " and ', they do pretty much the exact same thing. It's just that if you have a string with lots of double quotes, it's more convenient to put it between single quotes so you don't have to escape all of them (and vice versa). That's definitely not the problem.

Edited by SadBunny

Roses are FF0000, violets are 0000FF... All my base are belong to you.

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notepad freezes after a while and then send() start to goes crazy like you said, you can use consolewrite instead of send to notepad for small things, then copy/paste from console output to notepad, but it is probably not a good idea in your case with this script, for this you can use filewrite, its way more faster

example, Consolewrite("1 For" & $chave & @crlf) or filewrite ("test.txt","1 For" & $chave & @crlf)

what is the '1 for' for?, just for testing?, i'll write you an example for generating chrs of up to 3 combinations

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SadBunny,

Thank you for your welcome and replay to my post and yes, I can explain what I want to do: write in the Notepad.exe all combinations between the subset of ASCII tables:

Local $aArrayesp[26] = ['"','@',"$","%",'&',"*","(",")","_","+","=","-","'","?",":",">","<",",",".",";","/",'^',"~",'']

Local $aArrayespmai[52] = ['"','@','$','%','&','*','(',')','_','+','=','-',"'","?",':','>',"<",',','.',';','/','^','~','','A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z']

My code do that but as I have explained, at a certain point it seemed to "interpret" my sends as commands.

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Use the send command with the RAW parameter, but why not simply write it directly to the file?

Jos

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There are better ways to a. generate those strings and b. write them to notepad. My point is, I can't imagine the end goal is to have a notepad full of strings. What are you actually trying to do, what do you need that data for, what do you want to do with it? There are bound to be better solutions.

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MadAndroid,

When you post code please use Code tags - see here how to do it.  Then you get a scrolling box and syntax colouring as you can see above now I have added the tags.


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this one will generate up to 3 chr combinations, in the $aArrayComb variable you pick your combinations of chr to generate

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
;CREATE character map
$aArrayEspString = "'" & '"@$%&*()_+=-?:><,.;/^~'
$aArrayMinString = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
$aArrayMaiString = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
$aArrayNumString = '0123456789'

;add chrs you whant to generate with to $aArrayComb
;~ $aArrayComb = $aArrayNumString&$aArrayMinString      ;EXAMPLE of numbers + alphabet lowercase
;~ $aArrayComb = $aArrayMinString                       ;EXAMPLE alphabet lowercase
;~ $aArrayComb = $aArrayMaiString&$aArrayMaiString      ;EXAMPLE alphabet lowercase and uppercase
$aArrayComb = $aArrayEspString & $aArrayMinString & $aArrayMaiString & $aArrayNumString ;EXAMPLE of all chrs

;create array, first item is index
$aArrayComb = StringSplit($aArrayComb, "") ;this will generate an array and the first array "$aArrayComb[0]" will be the index, so no need to use "UBound($aArrayesp)-1" in the for to loop, use $aArrayComb[0] instead

FileDelete("ChrsGen.txt");clear previously generated text file
$chave = ""
For $1 = 1 To $aArrayComb[0] ; $1=1 to start from $aArrayComb[1] because $aArrayComb[0] is the array index
    For $2 = 1 To $aArrayComb[0]
        For $3 = 1 To $aArrayComb[0]
            $chave &= $aArrayComb[$1] & $aArrayComb[$2] & $aArrayComb[$3] & @CRLF

            ;the best option it is to write file after all is done but if you want to look at it while it works then here you go, bit it is very slow this way
;~          FileWrite("ChrsGen.txt", $chave)
;~          Consolewrite($chave & @crlf) ;not a good one in this case
        Next
    Next
Next
FileWrite("ChrsGen.txt", $chave)

Func Terminate()
    Exit
EndFunc   ;==>Terminate

I did place the characters in a string to make it easier to pick character combinations, you can go and add more for to next loops but it will get slow the more you add, but not as slow as your notepad method was

i don't know if there is a better way to generate combinations, but hope this helps, if there is a better way i hope to get an example also from some one else =P

Edited by jvds
my spelling is a messy mess + removed junk line in code
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Does anyone realize that this script will do somewhere in the ballpark of 34 trillion Send() operations to Notepad? As almost all of them will be 13 characters long, that will lead to some 441 terabytes of data you're trying to pump into a notepad window. This is never going to complete.

Roses are FF0000, violets are 0000FF... All my base are belong to you.

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I would like to thank you all for the tips (including the way to post codes). In order to explain why I use the Notepad I have to say that it was really to test the code. I would not intented to let it run until ends. It was just to understand why the code was generating wrong combinations. I agree it was not the better way but I began to use Autoit this week and do not know how to do many things. I will make the suggested modifications on my code and see if it do what I need.

Sadbunny, this code is a question for implementation of algorithms of a college class. The question is not exactly like that I posted but I believe the rest I would manage to do. 

 

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Jvds,

I liked very much your idea. Very small and concise your code. Can you suggest anyway to make it ask the initial combination to start ? I mean, if I want for example to start with "@3@" and the program has to continue the rest of combinations, how do I do ?

Thanks a lot.

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at a certain point it seemed to "interpret" my sends as commands.

You should have a look at the meaning of special characters in the Send function
BTW this looks much more like some bruteforce test rather than an 'implementation of algorithms of a college class'

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Exactly, this stinks naïve attempt to bruteforce a password and try to foul contributors in believing it's something else thru evasive unbelievable reason.

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Guys, first of all there`s many hacker brute force software with faster implementations using hash or wordlists avaiable for download. Why should I lose my time creating something that will produce hundreds of terabytes as SadBunny pointed so well ? Besides the first problem I poited out was explained well by JVDS post which said Notepad freezes and suggested the use of a file. I`ve already tried and solve this first problem.

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