Use a variable for Send()

[IAMK]

My script reads in data from a text file, line by line. E.g.

1
^f
q

Then, each line gets stored in a variable for use later in a Send() command as a keyboard press.
I currently have:

Execute("Send(""{" & $variable & "}"")")

However, that doesn't do what I want. How can I get the above code to work with the 2nd line of data?

Note: I don't want to use if statements to see if there are special characters in the data to put things like ^ before the {.
Is this possible?

I'm thinking the best I can have is some form of RegEx which looks for special characters, then applies them before the bracket if there is one, but I have no idea how to do that.

 

Thank you in advance.

Edited July 10, 2018 by IAMK

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Hi @IAMK
What's the purpose of this?
What's your goal?


Best Regards.

[InnI]

@IAMK

$aLines = FileReadToArray("keys.txt")
For $i = 0 To UBound($aLines) - 1
  Send($aLines[$i])
Next

 

[IAMK]

@FrancescoDiMuro Well, I normally hardcode all my scripts, but now people want it to be easily editable in a .txt file. That way they don't need to look at code AT ALL or have to compile/build each time a change is made.

@InnI I will try that tomorrow. I didn't expect it to be that easy, hence my attempted use of Execute.