AutoHotkey remap keys to swich two keys with each other - autohotkey

I'm new to AHK and I wanted to make a script that remaps all the number keys to the relative symbol above it and the symbol to the number. So for example when I press 2 "#" is printed, and SHIFT+2 actually prints 2.
my code is as follows:
2::send #
#::send 2
and so on for all other number keys...
but apparently the # printed by the first send triggers the second and it gets stuck in a loop.
I know it's probably a stupid and basic mistake but I couldn't find anything about how to go around this. Anybody know how to do it?

Just use the shift key (which is how you get to # anyway) and the $ keyboard hook modifier (so the hotkey is only activated if actually pressed):
$2::send #
$+2::send 2
and so on for all other number keys...

I added this to an existing .ahk file and confirmed it does exactly what you want.
$1::SendRaw !
$!::SendRaw 1
$2::SendRaw #
$#::SendRaw 2
$3::SendRaw #
$#::SendRaw 3
$4::SendRaw $
$$::SendRaw 4
$5::SendRaw `%
$%::SendRaw 5
$6::SendRaw ^
$^::SendRaw 6
$7::SendRaw &
$&::SendRaw 7
$8::SendRaw *
$*::SendRaw 8
$9::SendRaw (
$(::SendRaw 9
$0::SendRaw )
$)::SendRaw 0

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Powershell Output Question when running Forms

When I run my Forms code I have different objects that are added to the Form (buttons, labels, etc) I attache the objects to the form by using the command $Form1.Controls.Add([ObjectType]).
My question is, when I run my code I get an instant sequence of numbers in my console and output dialogue box of:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
When after I click Submit button the string "OK" is added to the numbers shown above
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 OK
Why is this happening and how can I remove these or atleast omit them from displaying.
The OK displays once the Submit button is pressed.
OK
Some actions like .Add() are producing output. To prevent this, pipe the output into the [void] by adding | Out-Null at the end of the line or [void] directly infront of the variable that is used, like:
$foo.SomethingThatGeneratesOutput() | Out-Null
or
[void]$foo = SomethingThatGeneratesOutput
As T-Me has stated, to prevent output being generated when executing methods as you are use [Void].
[Void]$Form1.Controls.Add([ObjectType])
If your code is still returning unwanted data, open the script in PowerShell ISE, and execute the script line by line (select the line and press F8). This will help you determine which line of code is generating output still.

Why is no output files written in prinseqlite perl loop?

I am completely new to this type of coding/command lines, so I am sorry if I am asking this question in a wrong way.
I want to loop over all files in a directory (I am quality trimming DNA sequencing files (.fastq format))
I have written this loop:
for i in *.fastq; do
perl /apps/prinseqlite/0.20.4/prinseq-lite.pl -fastq $i -min_len 220 -max_len 240 -min_qual_mean 30 -ns_max_n 5 -trim_tail_right 15 -trim_tail_left 15 -out_good /proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/$i_filtered.fastq -out_bad null; done
The code itself seems to work, I can see in my terminal that it is taking the right files and it is doing the trimming (it is writing a summary log in the terminal as it goes), but no output files are generated - i.e these ones:
-out_good /proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/$i_filtered.fastq
If I run the code in a non-loop way, just on one file it works (= the output is generated). link this example:
prinseq-lite.pl -fastq 60782_merged_rRNA.fastq -min_len 220 -max_len 240 -min_qual_mean 30 -ns_max_n 5 -trim_tail_right 15 -trim_tail_left 15 -out_good 60782_merged_rRNA_filt_codeTEST.fastq -out_bad null
Is there a simple reason/answer to this?
This problem has nothing to do with Perl at all.
/proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/$i_filtered.fastq is read by the shell as interpolating the contents of i_filtered. There is no such shell variable, so this argument turns into /proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/.fastq ($i_filtered turns into nothing).
Therefore all of your prinseq-lite.pl executions place their output in the same file, which (because its name starts with a .) is "hidden": You need to use ls -a to see it, not just ls.
Fix
... -out_good /proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/${i}_filtered.fastq
Note that this would give you e.g. 60782_merged_rRNA.fastq_filtered.fastq for an input file of 60782_merged_rRNA.fastq. If you want to get rid of the duplicate .fastq part, you need something like:
... -out_good /proj/forhot/qfiltered/looptest/"${i%.fastq}"_filtered.fastq

Range operator [3..max?] for selecting elements from an array [duplicate]

How can I get the array element range of first to second last?
For example,
$array = 1,2,3,4,5
$array[0] - will give me the first (1)
$array[-2] - will give me the second last (4)
$array[0..2] - will give me first to third (1,2,3)
$array[0..-2] - I'm expecting to get first to second last (1,2,3,4) but I get 1,5,4 ???
I know I can do long hand and go for($x=0;$x -lt $array.count;$x++), but I was looking for the square bracket shortcut.
You just need to calculate the end index, like so:
$array[0..($array.length - 2)]
Do remember to check that you actually have more than two entries in your array first, otherwise you'll find yourself getting duplicates in the result.
An example of such a duplicate would be:
#(1)[0..-1]
Which, from an array of a single 1 gives the following output
1
1
There might be a situation where you are processing a list, but you don't know the length. Select-object has a -skiplast parameter.
(1,2,3,4,5 | select -skiplast 2)
1
2
3
As mentioned earlier the best solution here:
$array[0..($array.length - 2)]
The problem you met with $array[0..-2] can be explained with the nature of "0..-2" expression and the range operator ".." in PowerShell. If you try to evaluate just this part "0..-2" in PowerShell you will see that result will be an array of numbers from 0 to -2.
>> 0..-2
0
-1
-2
And when you're trying to do $array[0..-2] in PowerShell it's the same as if you would do $array[0,-1,-2]. That's why you get results as 1, 5, 4 instead of 1, 2, 3, 4.
It could be kind of counterintuitive at first especially if you have some Python or Ruby background, but you need to take it into account when using PowerShell.
Robert Westerlund answer is excellent.
This answer I just saw on the Everything you wanted to know about arrays page and wanted to try it out.
I like it because it seems to describe exactly what the goal is, end at one short of the upper bound.
$array[0..($array.GetUpperBound(0) - 1)]
1
2
3
4
I used this variation of your original attempt to uninstall all but the latest version from Get-InstalledModule. It's really short, but not perfect because if there are more than 9 items it still returns just 8, but you can put a larger negative number, though.
$array[-9..-2]
1
2
3
4

use perl to extract specific output lines

I'm endeavoring to create a system to generalize rules from input text. I'm using reVerb to create my initial set of rules. Using the following command[*], for instance:
$ echo "Bananas are an excellent source of potassium." | ./reverb -q | tr '\t' '\n' | cat -n
To generate output of the form:
1 stdin
2 1
3 Bananas
4 are an excellent source of
5 potassium
6 0
7 1
8 1
9 6
10 6
11 7
12 0.9999999997341693
13 Bananas are an excellent source of potassium .
14 NNS VBP DT JJ NN IN NN .
15 B-NP B-VP B-NP I-NP I-NP I-NP I-NP O
16 bananas
17 be source of
18 potassium
I'm currently piping the output to a file, which includes the preceding white space and numbers as depicted above.
What I'm really after is just the simple rule at the end, i.e. lines 16, 17 & 18. I've been trying to create a script to extract just that component and put it to a new file in the form of a Prolog clause, i.e. be source of(banans, potassium).
Is that feasible? Can Prolog rules contain white space like that?
I think I'm locked into getting all that output from reVerb so, what would be the best way to extract the desirable component? With a Perl script? Or maybe sed?
*Later I plan to replace this with a larger input file as opposed to just single sentences.
This seems wasteful. Why not leave the tabs as they are, and use:
$ echo "Bananas are an excellent source of potassium." \
| ./reverb -q | cut --fields=16,17,18
And yes, you can have rules like this in Prolog. See the answer by #mat. You need to know a bit of Prolog before you move on, I guess.
It is easier, however, to just make the string a a valid name for a predicate:
be_source_of with underscores instead of spaces
or 'be source of' with spaces, and enclosed in single quotes.
You can use probably awk to do what you want with the three fields. See for example the printf command in awk. Or, you can parse it again from Prolog directly. Both are beyond the scope of your current question, I feel.
sed -n 'N;N
:cycle
$!{N
D
b cycle
}
s/\(.*\)\n\(.*\)\n\(.*\)/\2 (\1,\3)/p' YourFile
if number are in output and not jsut for the reference, change last sed action by
s/\^ *[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}\(.*\)\n *[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}\(.*\)\n *[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}\(.*\)/\2 (\1,\3)/p
assuming the last 3 lines are the source of your "rules"
Regarding the Prolog part of the question:
Yes, Prolog facts can contain whitespace like this, with suitable operator declarations present.
For example:
:- op(700, fx, be).
:- op(650, fx, source).
:- op(600, fx, of).
Example query and its result, to let you see the shape of terms that are created with this syntax:
?- write_canonical(be source of(a, b)).
be(source(of(a,b))).
Therefore, with these operator declarations, a fact like:
be source of(a, b).
is exactly the same as stating:
be(source(of(a,b)).
Depending on use cases and other definitions, it may even be an advantage to create this kind of facts (i.e., facts of the form be/1 instead of source_of/2). If this is the only kind of facts you need, you can simply write:
source_of(a, b).
This creates no redundant wrappers and is easier to use.
Or, as Boris suggested, you can use single quotes as in 'be source of'/2.

Displaying List of AutoHotkey Hotkeys

I’ve written script that contains numerous hotkeys (general structure is as below). I would like to create another one that when pressed displays a list of all of the hotkeys and their corresponding descriptions that the script contains in a nice, formatted table.
The formatting and display are tenuous since AutoHotkey’s output is limited to message-boxes, but possible. More problematic is getting the hotkeys and corresponding descriptions.
The hotkeys all call the same function with different arguments. I considered adding a variable to the function so that depending on the value, the function either performs the normal function when triggered by the normal hotkeys, or builds a string or something when triggered from the special display hotkey.
I cannot figure out a way to programmatically access the script’s hotkeys at all. I checked the docs and there don’t seem to be any A_ variables that can be used for this purpose, nor does the Hotkey command lend itself well (it can be used to test if a hotkey exists, but looping through the innumerable combinations is, at best, tedious).
Failed attempts:
I tried using Elliot’s suggestion of parsing the script itself (replacing the path with %A_ScriptFullPath%, and while it does work for a raw script, it does not when the script is compiled
I tried assigning the entire hotkey section of the script to a variable as a continuation section and then parsing the variable and creating hotkeys using the Hotkey command. This worked well right up until the last part because the Hotkey command cannot take arbitrary commands as the destination and requires existing labels.
The ListHotkeys command is not applicable because it only displays the hotkeys as plain text in the control window.
Does anyone know how I can display a list of the hotkeys and either their corresponding arguments or comments?
Example script:
SomeFunc(foobar)
{
MsgBox %foobar%
}
!^#A::SomeFunc("a") ; blah
^+NumpadMult::SomeFunc("c") ; blivet
^+!#`::SomeFunc("b") ; baz
^#Space::SomeFunc("d") ; ermahgerd
…
Example desired “outputs”:
C+A+ W+ A a | C+ S+ NumpadMult b
------------------+----------------------
C+A+S+W+ ` c | C+ W+ Space d
    or
Ctrl Alt Shift Win Key Action
-----------------------------------------
× × × A blah
× × NumpadMult baz
× × × × ` blivet
× × Space ermahgerd
etc.
The only thing I can think of is to read each line of your script individually and parse it. This code reads your script (script.ahk) one line at a time and parses it. This should get you started. Additionally, you could parse the line to check for the modifiers as well.
Loop
{
FileReadLine, line, C:\script.ahk, %A_Index%
if ErrorLevel
break
If Instr(line, "::")
{
StringSplit, linearray, line, ::,
key := linearray1
StringSplit, commandarray, linearray3, `;
action := commandarray2
hotkeyline := "key: " . key . "`tAction: " . action
final .= hotkeyline . "`r"
}
}
msgbox % final
return
I found a solution. It is not perfect (or ideal), and hopefully a proper, built-in method will become available in the future, but it works well (enough) and for raw and compiled scripts.
What I did was to use the FileInstall command which tells the compiler to add a file to the executable (and extract it when run).
Sadly, the FileInstall command will not allow the use of variables for the source file, so I cannot simply include the script itself (FileInstall, %A_ScriptFullPath%, %A_Temp%\%A_ScriptName%, 1).
As a work-around, I ended up extracting all of the desired hotkeys to a second file which I then parse as Elliot suggested, then delete, and #Include at the end of my script (it must be at the end since hotkeys will terminate the autoexecute section).
;;;;; Test.ahk ;;;;;
; Add hotkey file to executable and extract to Temp directory at runtime
FileInstall, Hotkeys.ahk, %A_Temp%\Hotkeys.ahk, 1
Loop
{
;Read a line from the extracted hotkey script and quit if error
FileReadLine, line, %A_Temp%\Hotkeys.ahk, %A_Index%
if ErrorLevel
break
;Trim whitespace
line=%line%
; Parse the line as in Elliot’s answer, but with tweaks as necessary
ParseHotkey(line)
…
}
FileDelete, %A_Temp%\Hotkeys.ahk ; Delete the extracted script
DisplayHotkeys() ; I ended up bulding and using a GUI instead
#Include, Hotkeys.ahk ; It is included at compile-time, so no A_Temp
;;;;; Hotkeys.ahk ;;;;;
z::MsgBox foo
y::MsgBox bar