Remove dashes and paste

[slvrstn]

I couldn't follow the documentation for adding a command so I'd appreciate some help in what I think should be relatively easy.
I want a command that will paste the most recently copied item after replacing all dashes with spaces.
So, if the last thing I copied to clipboard was
Remove-all-of-the-dashes
it would paste as
Remove all of the dashes

Appreciate any help with the config needed in copyq to do this. Thanks!

[slvrstn]

OK, I think I got it ...

copyq:
var text = str(clipboard())
var newText = text.replace(/-/g, ' ')
if (text == newText)
  abort();

copy(newText)
paste()

I didn't really find documentation for replace, but I did find an example with the regex version
(which got me the global replace option)
Thanks for rubber-ducking!

Oh, and learning that the language is basically Javascript helps for discovery.
Now that I know I guess I can't not see it in the docs.

[hluk]

I can see what you mean. I think there were more mentions about JavaScript in the docs in the past but somehow got lost after many updates.

I've updated the docs and mention JavaScript also here: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scripting-api.html

[elmaure]

I trying so hard to do something similiar. I want to remove dots from a string, for example, 34.803.198 when i copy i want to get 34803198. I wrote this, but does not work.

copyq:
vartext=str(clipboard())
varnewText=text.replace(/./g,'')
if(text==newText)
abort();

copy(newText)
paste()

[elmaure]

I also tried

copyq:
var text = str(input())
if ( text.indexOf(' ') == -1 )
abort()

var newText = text.replace(/ /g, '')
setData(mimeText, newText)
removeData(mimeHtml)
copy(newText)

[hluk]

You need to escape the dot in the regular expression (otherwise it has special meaning: "match any character"):

varnewText=text.replace(/\./g,'')

[elmaure]

Thanks you Lukas

[Saccadio]

I am trying again something similar, but I have several problems with it. I want to paste plain text where all NL LF characters are replaced with a space character. So, this is (one of) my tries:

copyq:
copy()
var text = input()

if (text) {
var newText = text.replace(/[\r\n]+/g,' ')
copy(newText)
paste()
}

but I get a notification that property "replace "of scriptable byte array is not a function. I am NOT proficient in regex expressions, nor Javascript, but this I do not understand.

Before this error, CopyQ complained about the last right parentheses, showing it in green together with the following text "copy (new...", thus seemed to parse something wrong. So, I copied the "text.replace..." (which was copied from CopyQ's code window back into CopyQ - which surprisingly fixed the problem, so the command ran without errors, but did not replace with space. So, I tried some other variations - and are now back with the one above (that worked) - BUT now I get the error again?????

What is it that I do not understand about how to enter the code - and what is it that I am not understanding about the regex, so that it does not replace with blanks. The pattern seems to work on Regex101.com

Btw, this is included in many copy managers, so that it is easy to paste text into e.g. subject fields in emails or filenames. Any thoughts on including it as standard in CopyQ (which I really like)

[hluk]

Try converting the ByteArray object (returned by input()) to string first: var text = str(input())

[Saccadio]

Thanks. Now I understand the error message. The code now reads:
copyq:
copy()
var text = str(input())

if (text) {
var newText = text.replace(/[\r\n]+/g,' ' )
copy (newText)
paste()
}

I do not get an error message, but I also do not get anything pasted? When I first altered according to your suggestion, I got an error message that it could not paste.

In the log it reads:
Warning [2023-02-01 12:42:00.128] : [qt.qpa.mime] QtWarning: Retrying to obtain clipboard.

[Saccadio]

Now I have tried and tried again and do not get the gist of this.

I even tried this, which should be a nobrainer:

copyq:
copy()
var text =str( input())

var newText = text
copy (newText)
paste()

But also here - nothing is pasted. Why?

[hluk]

Unfortunately, paste() may not work on some systems.

See also: Why does pasting from CopyQ not work?

[Saccadio]

Thanks for your reply. At least I may not be crazy.

So, CopyQ paste does not work on Windows 11? The paste settings suggested in your link were set already.

If this is the case for all users of W11, I would humbly suggest that you implement the feature I am trying to implement as standard - i..e any consecutive sequence of characters not allowed in filename (/t /r /l - possibly : and other special characters that I do not remember off hand) are removed and replaced by one space character.

Why does Paste not work? I am just trying to copy and paste in a Notepad window. Nothing fancy