readStringFromClip: Read a string (max 5000 char in mac) from clipboard

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

Description

Read a string (max 5000 char in mac) from clipboard

Usage

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Arguments

testText

a string/character array usually missing. It allows test text to be put in and mostly gets around a roxygen2 issue I couldn't figure.

Details

Uses writeChar() on mac. See e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/13445458/1795127

Value

a string

Examples

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# Select someting and copy it to clipboard
# Then input a line
readline('Type cr when ready')
print(readStringFromClip())

tnearey/nutils documentation built on May 8, 2019, 12:50 p.m.