Getting data out of Excel

[Kay C Lan]

If you are absolutely sure that the clipboardData["text"] has return
represented by six spaces, and tabs by 3 spaces, then:
put clipboardData["text"] into tData
replace "      " with return in tData
repace "   " with tab in tData

Will only take milliseconds to do what you need! How much quicker do you
want?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael Julian Lew <
michaell at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> I'm trying to paste data from MS Excel into a table in my Livecode stack
> without success. I suspect that either OSX or Excel have added unwelcome
> complications.
>
> I used to be able to just paste, but nowadays (Excel 2011 Mac OSX 10.7.4)
> the data come in as a long string, with six spaces where a return should be
> and three where a tab should be. Putting the clipboardData["text"] makes no
> difference, and the clipboardData["RTF"] is not what I want.
>
> I can make it work by copying cells in Excel, then Paste Text Only in
> Nisus Writer Pro, then copying and pasting the text from there.
>
> I can write a function to clean up the clipboardData, but it seems silly
> to need to do so. Does anyone have a quick solution?
>
> Regards,
> Michael Lew
>
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