Adding html around clipboard, and position cursor

[shortbeard]

hey guys I'm trying to recreate some scripts I made on my mac, & I was hoping someone could give me a hand.
my scripts went something like this (kind of in AHK format...

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:c*:--sc::"<span class=' " . %cursor% . "  '>"  . %clipboard% . "<span>"

and I have lots of variants to that with divs, and other html elements etc...
I just want the current item on the clipboard, as I select it and cut it, to be wrapped in that element

[TheDewd]

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#SingleInstance, Force

Cursor := "Something"

SpanText := "<span class=""" Cursor """>" Clipboard "<span>"

:c*:--sc::
	SendInput, % SpanText
return

I guess I don't understand about the position, but this is how you insert variables into a string using AutoHotkey.

[list]

Why would you manually cut it? You can have ahk do it for you

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:c*:--sc::
; if you don't have any selected it will use the clipboard contents as you already have it, 
; but it will depend on your editor, some editors copy the 
Send ^c ; or Send ^x entire line if you haven't selected it so ymmv
Send, <span class=''>%clipboard%</span>
Return

The %cursor% is going to be a bit tricky as you need to figure out how many {left}s you have to send.

You could look at Lintalist which would do most of the heavy lifting for you https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3378 - the above example would be the following snippet 'code'

<span class='^|'>[[selected]]</span>

^| marks the caret position after pasting the text