How to Send Keystrokes with Special Characters

Keywords: 	 sendkeys special characters

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Question:

I would like to prompt a user for password and send it as keystrokes to another program. The problem I have is if the password contains special charecters (e.g. !&^@....) winbatch fails to send the key strokes properly (because it requires Shift + or the key be enclosed in {}). How would I address this problem.

Answer:

Something like:

pswd=AskPassword(...
pswd=StrReplace(pswd, "{", "{{}")
pswd=StrReplace(pswd, "+", "{+}")
pswd=StrReplace(pswd, "!", "{!}")
pswd=StrReplace(pswd, "^", "{^}")
pswd=StrReplace(pswd, "~", "{~}")
SendKey(pswd)

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Article ID:   W14499

Filename:   Sending Keystrokes with Special Characters.txt