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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:05:53 -0600
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From: "E.S.Fabian" 
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Subject: Re: Read txt file into W95 clipboard line by line?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:05:52 -0500
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 wrote in message news:le2a3vga87s79fuinrn2h996bkcrb3nv2q@4ax.com...
> Is there a way to read one line of a text file at a time into the
> windows clipboard?  I also have 4dos, so I could use that if it can't
> be done in regular dos, or windows' bastardized dos.
>
> I've got Macro Mania and I'm trying to make a loop that'll read one
> line from a file, put it in the clipboard, paste it, do some other
> stuff, then read the next on, etc.
> I know it can be done cause I did it before long ago, but I can't
> remember how!!

In 4DOS you can read specific lines from the clipboard with the @clip[n] function, and write to it using the @clipw[string]
function. You can also redirect the standard output of any internal or external command using "> CLIP:" or ">> CLIP:".

The best way to process each line of a file AAA.TXT is

do %line in @AAA.TXT
  ... process each line
enddo

Beware of using the clipboard when any "scheduled tasks" might also do it! The clipboard in NOT dedicated to a single task.
Also beware of using 4DOS (or any other JP Software command processor, or COMMAND.COM, or CMD.EXE) to do text processing, if the
text might contain the characters %,&,$,,^ etc. - i.e., any character which the command processor might consider syntactically
significant. In JP command processors you can partially disable those special meanings with the various suboptions of the /X option
of the SETDOS command, which may or may not be adequate for your purposes.

JP command processors create temporary files in the %temp directory when accessing the clipboard. These files are NOT removed.

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E. S. "Steve" Fabian               ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net
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