I'm sure that the above program worked in your test. But try the following experiment:

Open up Notepad, write something, and copy it to the clipboard. Read the clipboard with Win32::Clipboard. Look for whether you now see \r inside Perl.

Save the file from Notepad to the filesystem. In Perl, read that file, and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard into Notepad, and see how it deals with the straight \n's that you see.

When I tried this a long time ago (I no longer deal with Windows, so it might have changed), the results were that other programs put \r\n into the clipboard and expected to find \r\n when they copied from it. Therefore you need to handle the conversion with the Win32 clipboard if you want to be able to get smooth interactions between Perl and other Windows programs.

In reply to Re^4: print to clipboard by tilly
in thread print to clipboard by tomazos

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