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How to copy a string from Clipboard in java 

Jodd is an open-source java library with lot of reusable components and feature rich utilities. This requires the library jodd-3.3.2.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to use ClipboardUtil.getStringFromClipboard() API. It gets the string copied to system clipboard.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/jodd/clipboard/CopyFromClipboardTest.java 
Author  :  Sudhakar KV
Email  :  [email protected]
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jodd.clipboard;

import jodd.util.ClipboardUtil;

public class CopyFromClipboardTest {

  /**
   @param args
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    //Copy the text to system clipboard using Ctrl+C or other mechanism
    //Now you can read the copied text using the following method
    String str = ClipboardUtil.getStringFromClipboard();
    System.out.println(str);
  }

}
   

It gives the following output,
My text from clipboard



 
  


  
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