Print size/length of string in clipboard on windows

Question

I'm hoping there exists a quick hack that will tell me the length of a string contained in the windows clipboard. (if it is in fact a string).

It's not for any kind of production code, and I'm not tied to any particular language.

TIA

You can also do it [in vb / vba](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5552299/how-to-copy-to-clipboard-using-access-vba). — assylias, Jul 19 '12 at 13:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 13:53

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In Java:

java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
String content = (String) clipboard.getData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
int size = content.length();

Add additional error checking as required.

answered Jul 19 '12 at 13:53

assylias

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '12 at 15:01

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In python:

import ctypes
ctypes.windll.user32.OpenClipboard(None)
print len(ctypes.c_char_p(ctypes.windll.user32.GetClipboardData(1)).value)
ctypes.windll.user32.CloseClipboard()

answered Jul 19 '12 at 15:01

jon

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Print size/length of string in clipboard on windows

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