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Is there an app or automation that can alter clipboard text to replace spaces with hyphens?

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Is there a utility or path to streamline taking a string from the clipboard and replacing spaces with hyphens, and vice versa, on demand? > N 010 377 1 to > N-010-377-1 and the reverse If this were a one-time batch operation, or contained within a single app I controlled, it would be a non-issue. Find and Replace right? This is something I do frequently, but it is a single string at a time between 3rd party applications (Excel, Safari, Preview, etc.). My current workflow: 1. Copy "N 010 377 1" from PDF file in Preview 2. Paste "N 010 377 1" into browser (Safari) or spreadsheet field (Excel) 3. Manually add or remove spaces or hyphens via keyboard In a perfect world, I would have a clipboard utility like Jumpcut where a hotkey combo would do this for me when I pasted. Something like: ⌘⇧- would paste data from clipboard replacing spaces with hyphens ⌘⇧␣ would paste data from clipboard replacing hyphens with spaces I don't mind doing some work to set this up, but utilizing it needs to be super simple (i.e., not launching an app and doing find replace). Thank you.
Asked by DenVog (101 rep)
Jun 16, 2025, 03:22 PM
Last activity: Jul 17, 2025, 02:27 PM