Count matching string from clipboard

[Danton]

Hi all,

the script I'm writing needs to count the number of matching "strings" in clipboard.

so how do I search the contents of the clipboard and return the number of matches for a string eg number of times "green rabbit" appears in the clipboard.

Thanks

[JRL]

There are probably other ways but I would simply get the clipboard text and then use Separate> to get a count. The "count" variable provided by Separate> will be one greater than the number of instances.

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GetClipBoard>strText
Separate>strText,green rabbit,item
Sub>item_count,1
MDL>%item_count% "green rabbit" found

[Danton]

Thanks, that did the trick!

[jpuziano]

Hi Danton and JRL,

The above will count all occurrances of "green rabbit" but will miss:

Green rabbit
GREEN RABBIT
...etc

If you want to count them all no matter what case was used, you could modify JRL's code like this:

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GetClipBoard>strText
LowerCase>strText,lower_strText
Separate>lower_strText,green rabbit,item
Sub>item_count,1
MDL>%item_count% "green rabbit" found

Another way to do this would be as follows:

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GetClipBoard>strText

//Case In-Sensitive match
Let>pattern=green rabbit

//Case Sensitive match
//Let>pattern=(?-i)green rabbit

RegEx>pattern,strText,0,matches,num,0
MDL>%num% "%pattern%" found

Used as it is, the above will be case in-sensitive but you can use the other pattern if you actually want a case-sensitive match.

Another benefit to this method is... if you are doing a case-insensitive match and you'd like to see the actual strings you matched, they will be stored in variables MATCHES_1, MATCHES_2, etc. whereas they are not stored using the Separate> method.

Take care