Reading from and writing to the system clipboard

To read the operating system clipboard, call the getData() method of the Clipboard.generalClipboard object, passing in the name of the format to read:

import flash.desktop.Clipboard; 
import flash.desktop.ClipboardFormats; 
 
if(Clipboard.generalClipboard.hasFormat(ClipboardFormats.TEXT_FORMAT)){ 
    var text:String = Clipboard.generalClipboard.getData(ClipboardFormats.TEXT_FORMAT); 
} 

To write to the clipboard, add the data to the Clipboard.generalClipboard object in one or more formats. Any existing data in the same format is overwritten automatically. Nevertheless, it is a good practice to also clear the system clipboard before writing new data to it to make sure that unrelated data in any other formats is also deleted.

import flash.desktop.Clipboard; 
import flash.desktop.ClipboardFormats; 
 
var textToCopy:String = "Copy to clipboard."; 
Clipboard.generalClipboard.clear(); 
Clipboard.generalClipboard.setData(ClipboardFormats.TEXT_FORMAT, textToCopy, false); 

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