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peter.cook Posted - 05/02/2006 : 11:53:47 AM
Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 7.5 SR6
Operating System: Win2000

Hi,

I want to copy some data to the clipboard then use indiviual rows eg#

ID1
ID2
.
.
IDn

The problem is that I can't figure how to interpret when one row ends and another begins (ie substrings?). I have to create a temporary worksheet, use GetClipboardText and then PasteData with the new worksheet. Read the individual rows then delete the temp worksheet.

Is there a slicker way - vectors/char arrays/anyting..?

Cheers,

pete
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peter.cook Posted - 05/03/2006 : 04:15:52 AM
Hi Ruthven & Mike,

Many thanks both for the assist & lesson - I think I even understand the code too. I reckon I'll adopt Ruthven's approach as it's more structured.

FYI : The code works and is used to enable the user to paste a column of text labels into a range of edit boxes on a dialog.

Cheers,

Pete



Edited by - peter.cook on 05/03/2006 04:21:19 AM
rlewis Posted - 05/02/2006 : 7:43:50 PM
How about this approach ..
 
bool ClipBoardToStringArray(StringArray &strClipBoard)
{
	string strCBtext;
	if(GetClipboardText(strCBtext)==true)
	{
		strClipBoard.SetSize(0);
		string strLine, strDelimiter="\r\n";
		int LineStart=0, LineEnd=0, ArraySize=0, i=0;
		while(LineEnd!=-1)
		{
			LineEnd=strCBtext.Find(strDelimiter,LineStart);
			if(LineEnd!=-1)
			{
				strLine=strCBtext.Mid(LineStart,(LineEnd-LineStart));
				LineStart=LineEnd+2;
			}
			else
			{
				strLine=strCBtext.Mid(LineStart);
				if(strLine.GetLength()==0)
				{
					continue;
				}
			}
			ArraySize++;
			strClipBoard.SetSize(ArraySize);
			strClipBoard[i]=strLine;
			i++;
		}
		return (true);
	}
	return (false);
}
Mike Buess Posted - 05/02/2006 : 1:38:31 PM
Hi Pete,

There may be slicker methods but the code below works for standard line ending character sequences (\r\n, \r or \n). Of course it will fail if clipboard text contains the '|' character.

string str;
if( !GetClipboardText( str ) ) return;
str.Replace("\r\n","|");
str.Replace('\r','|');
str.Replace('\n','|');
for(int i=0;i<str.GetNumTokens('|');i++)
{
printf("line %d: %s\n",i+1,str.GetToken(i,'|'));
}

Mike Buess
Origin WebRing Member

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