clipboardpaste

Copies data from clipboard and pastes into workspace.

Description

Retrieves data from the clipboard. The clipboard data may be of several types and it is encapsulated in a self-describing structure. This function is based on clipboardimage, by Saurabh Kumar, [e-mail], with heavy modifications to address various cross-platform issues. Tested on Windows XP, Mac OS 10.5, but should work on various versions of Linux.

New: You can paste file handles (with path) from the clipboard. You can either use the clipboardpaste function, or the new convenience function clipfile.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
clipboardimage
This submission has inspired the following:
IMCLIPBOARD

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)
• Other requirements: Requires Java (and an X display on Unix/Linux).

[Are Mjaavatten]

Very neat pair of utilities. Intuitive and easy to use. Clipboardpaste lets you copy a variety of data types from external sources into Matlab in a structured and unified way. Clipfile gives you full filenames, with path, in one operation. This ought to be part of standard Matlab in future versions!

[Toby Hijzen]

i second that