late in on this one but you can treat the clipboard as a filehandle if you pipe to pbpaste and pbcopy :
open (FROM_CLIPBOARD, "pbpaste|"); open (TO_CLIPBOARD, "|pbcopy");
you can then do as you normally would for moving data to and from fle handles. See the typically useful-in-a-real-world-situation example script below
So far as I can see there is no way to use this useful technique with a clipboard containing Unicode text, for example Chinese or Greek text copied from TextEdit. Am I right?
JD
