Text File to Clipboard

[radgator]

I am trying to copy a text file using scanner to the clipboard. Can someone tell me what my clipboard.setContents method should look like?

This is what I have now:


import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
File file = new File ("c:\\Temp\\testdata.txt");

try{
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);

while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {

String line = scanner.nextLine();

System.out.println(line);

}

clipboard.setContents(new StringSelection("string"), null); //right now this just copies "string" to the clipboard. I need it to copy the scanned in file to the clipboard.

} catch (Exception e) {}
}

}

[camickr]

Read the file into a StringBuilder. Then you create the StringSelection(...) object using the toString() method of the StringBuilder.

[radgator]

Thanks for the help.... worked perfectly

[doWhile]

Cross posted New to Java Help with Clipboard