Copying from a data field quickly

[centagon]

I have a data entry loop, but a part of it consists of scanning the entry field for a particular value, comparing it to the data to be entered, before splitting off into if statements. As the data field is in a proprietary program, I don't think I can extract the value in any way but copying it to clipboard, but using Send("^c") is kind of slow, and I notice that in the loop, it begins to fail (not properly copy over the number) unless I add at least sleep(1000). 

Is there a faster way I can handle this?

[FrancescoDiMuro]

1 minute ago, centagon said:

Is there a faster way I can handle this?

Control* functions, Clip* functions.

Look closer in the Help file

[centagon]

I've tried clipput, but I dont know how to send something already in the data field to the clipboard. I want to copy something already highlighted to clipboard or a variable, then compare it. What am I missing?

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@centagon

Did you look at Control* functions in the Help file?

Did you at least tried them?

Post the code yoiu are using.