Campus Livre
clipboard
Copies text to the system clipboard or reads the text stored there.
Category: Environment and Settings > System Commands
Syntax
clipboard('copy', data)Puts data on the clipboard as text.
data = clipboard('paste')Returns the current clipboard text as a character vector.
Description
clipboard is the programmatic equivalent of copy and paste for plain text. Only text is exchanged; images and files on the clipboard are not read.
Input arguments
'copy' | 'paste'- The action to perform.
data- Text to copy. Other values are converted to their text form.
Output arguments
data- Clipboard contents as text, for
'paste'.
Example
Round trip through the clipboard
clipboard('copy', 'hello from MatLivre');
s = clipboard('paste')Output
s = 'hello from MatLivre'