It doesn't seem to be the case currently.

Win32::Clipboard only supports a fixed set of constants and does not pass other formats to the Win32 API.

See this bug report, made just now.

As a fun exercise, I wrote the following:

#!perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::API;
use Win32::Clipboard;
use 5.006;

our $registerClipboardFormat = Win32::API::More->new(
    'user32', 'RegisterClipboardFormat', 'P', 'I'
);
die "$^E"
    unless $registerClipboardFormat;

#int WINAPI GetClipboardFormatName(
#  _In_  UINT   format,
#  _Out_ LPTSTR lpszFormatName,
#  _In_  int    cchMaxCount
#);

our $_getClipboardFormatName = Win32::API::More->new(
    'user32', 'GetClipboardFormatName', 'IPI', 'I'
);
die "$^E"
    unless $_getClipboardFormatName;

sub getClipboardFormatName {
    my( $format ) = @_;
    my $buffer = "\0" x 1024;
    my $addr = unpack 'I', pack 'P', $buffer;
    #print $addr;
    warn $format;
    return "<builtin format>" if $format < 17; # CF_MAX
    $_getClipboardFormatName->Call( $format, $buffer, length $buffer )
        or die $^E;
    $buffer =~ s/\0+$//;
    $buffer
}

our $CF_HTML;
sub CF_HTML() {
    $CF_HTML ||= do {
        $registerClipboardFormat->Call("HTML Format");
    };
}

my $cb = Win32::Clipboard->new();

for my $fmt ($cb->EnumFormats()) {
    print getClipboardFormatName( $fmt ), "\n";
};

warn "Retrieving as " . CF_HTML();
print $cb->GetAs(CF_HTML());

print "\ndone\n";

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This code lists the names and also fetches the custom formats. I plan to do this as a patch to Win32::Clipboard, but currently don't have the time, sorry.

In reply to Re: HTML from Clipboard in Windows by Corion
in thread HTML from Clipboard in Windows by kean

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