DOH!


I am using the UT virtual forum and I did not notice it was the VB form
sorry:)



>There is just one problem with this: this is the VB forum :)
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>>There are quite a few ways to do this
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>>The crudest way could be
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>>lcTxt=strtran(_cliptext,chr(9),',') && covert the xl tab chars to commas
>>strtofile(lcTxt,'myfile.txt')
>>sele mytable
>>append from myfile.txt delim
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>>or
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>>to get more control you could use the ALINES function to pu all the lines into an array and then just parse the array a line at a time. Or even just use the MLINE() function and do it a line at a time.
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>>eg
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>>lcTxt=_cliptext
>>for li = 1 to memlines(lcTxt)
>> lcLine=mline(lcTxt,li)
>> repl myfield1 with subs(lcline,5,6),myfield1 with subs(lcline,5,6) etc
>>next
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>>I have not checked the above but it should give you some ideas
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>>good luck
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>>>I need to grab multi-line, multi-field text from the clipboard but don't know how to parse it with code.
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>>>Basically, I'm thinking of having the user copy 2 columns of data from an Excel spreadsheet into clipboard and paste it into the database. I could use automation but the spreadsheet will have multiple worksheets so it makes things little more complicated.
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>>>How can I paste what is in the clipboard in code? Something like:
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>>>For Each "line" In "clipboardtext"
>>> Zipcode = Left(clipboardtext,5)
>>> Count = Val(Mid(clipboardtext,6))
>>>Next