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Written by Jamie Teh on 2025-01-10 at 01:30

I posted a while back about my occasional (but regular) need to paste numbers, stripping out punctuation, spaces, etc. This is particularly useful when paying bills, since amounts, reference numbers, etc. are often written with spaces or punctuation, but banking sites tend to barf if you include those. It turns out you can do this with Ditto Clipboard Manager using a paste script. I originally thought that paste scripts always ran, which doesn't work for me, but it turns out that they actually appear as items in the Special Paste menu, which is IMO not very well documented. Anyway, go to Ditto -> Options -> General -> Advanced -> On Paste Scripts and add this script:

clip.AsciiTextReplaceRegex("[^\d.]", "");

return false;

The name you specify is what appears in the Special Paste menu. You can even assign a shortcut key to that Special Paste item. Then, you just have to open Ditto, go to the item you want to paste and press the shortcut key (or use the Special Paste menu).

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Written by Quentin on 2025-01-10 at 03:07

@jcsteh we had a question on this and whether we should include the hyphen in the bank details on the NV Access donate page. I was going to ask if you had an opinion on it one way or the other. Just looking though, we've got "BSB and account no" label, then the numbers as "BSB - Account". I'm not sure you could copy that as is into any bank site / app, but you can grab either of those numbers on their own which seems useful (unless overseas banks want it as one number?)

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Written by Jamie Teh on 2025-01-10 at 03:45

@Quentin Yeah, I think it's fine as is. As far as I've seen, Australian banks don't let you copy them as a single number anyway; they're always two separate fields. Merging them would make it harder for Australian donors.

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Written by Jamie Teh on 2025-01-10 at 03:46

@Quentin One of the cases that drives me wild is my local council rates bills. They split up the reference number with spaces, but if you paste it onto their own billing portal, it rejects it. Absurd.

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Written by Quentin on 2025-01-10 at 04:29

@jcsteh Some of them are amazing and you can just tell... they never actually followed a user's progress through the workflow... I forget what it was now, but I had to do something with, I think a utility service awhile ago - it was something they couldn't do in the app but fear not - they could get you to their website to do it.... It was easy, the app on your phone generated a QR code, which you could scan with your phone (the one which was ALSO displaying the QR code....) to get to the right place on their website... I managed it, from memory, by taking a screenshot of the QR code screen and then working out how to get the phone to search it for a QR code.....

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Written by Kara Goldfinch on 2025-01-10 at 08:06

@jcsteh The amount of things you can do with that program is amazing.

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