Unicode values

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I am not sure where to start on this.

Does someone have a code snippet which will wait for a keypress or
combination keypress & give me its utf8 value?

e.g

ESC // keypress
Ctrl + C // combination keypress

Thanks.

[Marc Gravell]

How about (below, use [Ctrl]+[Break] to end):

using System;
using System.Text;
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Console.TreatCo ntrolCAsInput = true;
while (true)
{
ConsoleKeyInfo key = Console.ReadKey (true);
WriteChar(key.K eyChar);
}
}
static void WriteChar(char c)
{
char[] chars = { c };
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.G etBytes(chars);

foreach (byte b in bytes)
{
Console.Write(b .ToString("x2") );
}
Console.WriteLi ne();
}
}

[=?Utf-8?B?QUEyZTcyRQ==?=]

Thanks Marc. I'll try your solution momentarily.

If I am using SendKeys to simulate the left arrow being pressed 10 times,
I'd send {LEFT 10}

If I am reading the keystrokes to send to a window from a file, how do
write {LEFT 10} to the source file in the first place?

Thanks.

[Marc Gravell]

If I am reading the keystrokes to send to a window from a file, how do

write {LEFT 10} to the source file in the first place?

I might have misunderstood the question, but how about:

File.WriteAllTe xt(path, "{LEFT 10}");

Marc

[=?Utf-8?B?QUEyZTcyRQ==?=]

I might have misunderstood the question,

You might have. Currently, I read the input/source one byte at a time; so if
I read

\r I send {Enter}
\t I send {TAB}

here's my problem

[what to I need to read] I send {LEFT 10}

Thanks for your help.

[Marc Gravell]

Well, reading one *byte* at a time is a little dangerous anyway (unless
you know the data is ASCII or another single-byte encoding [UTF8 is not
single-byte for most of the possible chars]).

I'm not entirely sure whether your input is meant to be in plain text,
or SendKeys format; if plain text, and you want to send the literal
"{LEFT 10}", then you need to escape the reserved chars - i.e. any of:
+, ^, %, ~, {, }, [, ], (, )

The rules for this are here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...83(VS.85).aspx

If the file is meant to be already in SendKeys format, why do you need
to parse \r etc?

Anyway, you could use StreamReader to read it a line at a time, and send
lines rather than individual characters - although if the file is in
SendKeys format, I think I would not send anything for CR/LF, and just
use it to break up the text - i.e. I might have:
some~
text~
that
might
be~
on~
different
lines

In addition to solving the issue with sending "{", "E", "N", "T", "E",
"}", this would involve fewer IPC calls, so should be quicker.
Marc

[Marc Gravell]

like so, but I'm using a string for soruce instead of a file (same
difference...)

using System;
using System.Diagnost ics;
using System.IO;
using System.Threadin g;
using System.Windows. Forms;
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Process proc = Process.Start(" notepad.exe");

Console.WriteLi ne("Please ensure notepad is active!");
Thread.Sleep(50 00);

string INPUT = @"some~
text~
that
might{TAB}hic
be~
on~
different
lines";
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(IN PUT))
{
string line;
while ((line = reader.ReadLine ()) != null)
{
SendKeys.SendWa it(line);
}
}
}

}

[=?Utf-8?B?QUEyZTcyRQ==?=]

Thanks for your help and sample code.

I need to have a clearer grasp of what I am doing, I think.