In general we think of AutoHotkey as not being case sensitive however we put together the below list which shows 17 times that AutoHotkey is case sensitive!
16+ 1 bonus “gotcha” times AutoHotkey is Case Sensitive
- Window titles, accessed through WinGetTitle, are a notorious “gotcha” that trips people up.
- While you can make them case insensitive, Maps are, by default, case sensitive.
- Switches are great but you better be sure you get the case matched!
- Other language’s COM-objects
- RegEx are easily made case insensitive
- Strict variable comparisons using ==
- FormatTime is amazing but careful study is needed to use it properly
- When used in the Loop Parse Delimiter
- Surprisingly StrSplit() does care which case you’re splitting on
- Not surprisingly Ord() and Chr()
AutoHotkey Can be made Case Sensitive
The bonus time AutoHotkey is Case Sensitive is a bit complicated. When you’re using a Regular Expression to find a window’s title AND class (or Exe). You can check it out in the above video or read more about it here.
