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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 109

Mac Automator AppleScript: if clipboard starts with defined string, amend clipboard to remove specified character

I'm pretty new to AppleScript and Automator and I'm trying to figure out a way to do the following.

The clipboard contains something like <str://blahblahblah>

I'd like it to look at what is on the clipboard and if it begins with <str:// then it will remove the < and it will remove a > which is at the end of the clipboard data. Then when I go to paste, it will paste with the amended data.

Is this something that is possible, is anyone able to help me figure out how to get this to work in automator? Can I use the normal cmd-c and cmd-v for copy/paste or would it have to be a new shortcut?

Thanks for the help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 635

Answers (1)

Ted Wrigley
Ted Wrigley

Reputation: 3194

Automator has two built-in modules to work with the clipboard: Get Contents of Clipboard and Copy to Clipboard. They are both in the Utilities section. Add the 'Get Contents' to your workflow, then add a Run AppleScript module with the following code:

on run {input, parameters}
    set theClipText to item 1 of input
    if theClipText begins with "<str://" then
        set theClipText to text 2 through -2 of theClipText
    end if

    return theClipText
end run

then add the 'Copy to' module. it should look like this:

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Upvotes: 1

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