clipb2var

Copies the text data of clipboard.

clipb2var <strvar> [<offset>]

Remarks

Copies the text data in clipboard to <strvar>.
If clipboad content is too long, copied data was truncated. (cf. maximum length of a string)
If offset is specified, copied string starts offset*255-1 bytes.

The "clipb2var" command returns one of the following values in the system variable "result":

Value Meaning
0 Could not open the clipboard. Or the clipboard content was not a text data. Or the offset value was invalid.
1 Copying to <strvar> is successful.
2 Copied string was truncated. If you want to read a truncated data, increment a offset value and execute a clipb2var comannd again.
3 Could not allocate a memory to copy a clipboard content.

Example

clipb2var data
messagebox data 'clipboard data'
; read a clipboard content and write it to a file.
fileopen fp 'clipboard.txt' 0
if result <> 0 end

offset = 0
do
    clipb2var buff offset
    if result > 0 filewrite fp buff
    offset = offset + 1
loop while result = 2

fileclose fp