Solved: Reading from clipboard

Using Swift
1

I am trying to read the text from the clipboard to a string.

I have tried the following code and it writes to the clipboard OK but I can not get it to read the data back into the string.

@IBAction func testButton(_ sender: Any) {
print("Test Started")

    // copy to clipboard
    let pb = NSPasteboard.general
    pb.clearContents()
    pb.setString("Hello World!", forType: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.string)

// This worked solved problem
let cb = NSPasteboard.general.string(forType: .string)

    print(cb)

}
2

This seems to be about Apple's framework instead of the Swift language itself. You may have better luck over Apple Developer Forums.

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