Clipboard Convert Tabs to Spaces

[Kagerjay]

I have a snippet of code I copied into my clipboard. Pasting it out looks like this. Where[tab] is an actual tab indent

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[tab]<header id="masthead" class="site-header">
[tab][tab]<h1>
[tab][tab][tab]<h2>
[tab][tab][tab][tab]<h3>
[tab][tab][tab][tab][tab]<h4>;

I want to press an autohotkey to automatically normalize the code snippet. So if there's a [tab] on every line, remove it.
Then convert each [tab] into 2 spaces [**]

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<header id="masthead" class="site-header">
**<h1>
****<h2>
******<h3>
********<h4>;

So the general workflow is:

1. Copy code to clipboard
2. Press an autohotkey
3. Paste the newly formatted contents

Pseudocode would look like

- Dig through every clipboard content line by line
- If every item shares an equal number of [tab] spaces, remove them entirely
- Line by line, convert [tab] to [**] 2 spaces

[Exaskryz]

Look at StrReplace(). The tab character would be detected with `t. See escape characters.

Copy and paste is done using the Send command.

You can do line by line, or just replace the entirety of the string at once. If you want to go line by line, you'd do something involving Loop, Parse.

[Kagerjay]

I have a working solution now

Press f9 to trigger clipboard changes

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F9::
clipboard := StrReplace(clipboard, A_Tab, A_Space A_Space)
position := RegExMatch(clipboard, "\S")
test := RegExReplace(clipboard, "m)^[ ]{" . position - 1 . "}")
clipboard := test