Copying something from a list.

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deathlyreaver
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Copying something from a list.

Post by deathlyreaver » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:28 am

I'm not sure quite how to put words to this, but I'll try. I would love to know how I would go about copying lists, and putting it somewhere else.
For example, lets say I have a list of numbers
1
2
3
4
5

And I want to take each one and put it in a form, but I have to do it one at a time. If I wanted to do this manually, I would copy 1, put it in the form, go down, copy 2, put it in the form, copy 3, put it in the form, etc.
I know there is a way to do this in a macro, but I'm not quite sure.

(Oh, and this time I AM actually using macro scheduler, not iMacros.)

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:46 am

For this you would usually use the Separate command to split the list into an array. Then you would use a loop (e.g. Repeat/Until) to loop through the array to get each item in turn and as you do so you would use Send> to send that item to the form and probably need to do things like Press Tab to tab through each field.

Lots of examples in this forum and with the software.
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Post by deathlyreaver » Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:04 am

Could you give me an example? I'm real new to this, and I have no coding experience whatsoever.

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:42 am

Look at the "Separate" topic in the help file. There's an example there which is exactly what you want to do. Also search for Separate and Repeat on this site to find many other examples.
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