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Re: copying text to the system clipboard [message #42649]

Sun, 20 February 2005 13:23

Ken Mankoff
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Registered: February 2000

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Mark Hadfield wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger wrote:
>> is it possible to copy text from an IDL variable to the system
>> clipboard? Specifically, I would like to copy a string array into
>> a multi-line text which can be pasted into Notepad or wherever.
>>
>> I found David's 'clipboard' routine, which does it for graphics
>> windows.
>
> I think your best bet is to write your string array to a temporary
> file, then open that file in your text editor with a call to
> SPAWN. From there you can copy and paste to your heart's content.

Yes on OS X. Use the pbcopy & pbpaste system utilities. You can
either open a pipe and write directly to them, or write to a tmp
file as suggested above and then spawn another command
piping/cat-ing the tmp file to pbcopy.

I would guess Linux has similar command line interface to the
clipboard. I don't know about Win.

-k.

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