ahk-text

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ahk-text

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Load AHK v2 text processing, string operations, regex, and escape knowledge. Use when working with strings, regex, escaping, concatenation, or text manipulation. TRIGGER when: user mentions string, regex, escape, backtick, quote, concatenation, RegExMatch, RegExReplace, StrReplace, SubStr, InStr, StrLen, StrLower, StrUpper, Format, pattern, match, replace, split, join, text, parse, CSV, TSV, newline. Examples: "regex to match emails", "escape quotes in string", "split text by newline", "string concatenation"

AHK v2 Text Processing Skill

When this skill is invoked, load the following module files:

1. Read Modules/Module_TextProcessing.md — String operations, concatenation, text manipulation
2. Read Modules/Module_Escapes.md — Escape sequences, quote handling, special characters
3. Read Modules/Supplemental/Module_Regex.md — PCRE regex patterns for AHK v2
4. Read Modules/Supplemental/Module_Strings.md — String method reference

Critical Text Rules (Always Apply)

ESCAPES:          Backtick ` — NEVER backslash \ for escapes
NEWLINE:          `n (backtick-n) — NOT \n
TAB:              `t (backtick-t) — NOT \t
QUOTE IN STRING:  "He said ""hello""" — double the quote inside
CONCATENATION:    result := "hello " . "world" — dot operator with spaces
APPEND:           result .= "more text" — dot-equals for append
REGEX ENGINE:     PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
REGEX MATCH:      RegExMatch(haystack, pattern, &match) — & for output var
REGEX REPLACE:    result := RegExReplace(haystack, pattern, replacement)
SPLIT:            arr := StrSplit(text, delimiter)
JOIN:             result := arr.Join(delimiter) — requires #Include <Array>
FORMAT:           result := Format("{1} is {2}", var1, var2) — 1-based placeholders
MULTILINE:        Use continuation sections with ( and )

Common Pitfalls

WRONG                                RIGHT
─────────────────────────────────────────────────
"line1\nline2"                       "line1`nline2"
str += "text"                        str .= "text"
RegExMatch(str, pat, match)          RegExMatch(str, pat, &match)
'string' (single quotes)            "string" (double quotes — single quotes are literals in v2)

Continuation Sections (Multiline Strings)

text := "
(
    Line one
    Line two
    Line three
)"

Options: Join, LTrim, RTrim, Comments can be specified after (.