How to get the actual hotstring typed with capitalization in AutoHotKey?

Question

I am using hotstrings in AutoHotKey and the output is reliant on if characters are capitalized. Is there a way to determine if characters in the keys typed that triggered the hotkey are capitalized? I tried using A_ThisHotkey, but it does not seem to be case sensitive. Please let me know if you have a solution. Thanks.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65865638/how-to-get-the-actual-hotstring-typed-with-capitalization-in-autohotkey

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a built in way to do this, but maybe you'd be fine with just creating more hotstrings and using the C option for case sensitivity like this:

:C:hello::
:C:Hello::
:C:HeLLo::
:C:HELLO::
    MsgBox, % A_ThisHotkey
return

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Example request from comments:

hotstrings := "hello,HELLO,HeLlo,HellO,hElLo,hellO"
for each, hotstring in StrSplit(hotstrings, ",")
    Hotstring(":CB0*?:" hotstring, Func("MyFunction"))
return

MyFunction()
{
    MsgBox, % "Hotstring triggered!`n" A_ThisHotkey
}