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SEND clip as keystrokes

I am just wondering if there is any way in manner of PSH or VBS to paste/SEND the text from clipboard as separate keystrokes rather then string????

It is VERY important, since I have to do some automatic search in web UI drop down lists and passing text by CTRL+V simply does not work. So I need to send each letter as unique keystrokes.

Tried to find some way and searched over the Internet but no luck.

Thank you in advance

Solution

  • There are a few ways to interact with the clipboard in VBScript. Here's one way to read clipboard text:

    strText = CreateObject("htmlfile").ParentWindow.ClipboardData.GetData("text")

    Once you have the text, you could simply send each letter in sequence:

    For i = 1 To Len(strText)
    SendKeys Mid(strText, i, 1)
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