Thread: New to Java Help with Clipboard

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) {}
}
 
}

For future reference, please use the code tags.

Break the problem down into what you need...1) read the file into memory (see The StringBuilder Class (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Numbers and Strings) ). 2) pass the file contents as a String to the Clipbard as a StringSelection object (use value from 1) to do so).

Nice to know I spent my time trying to help only to have it wasted...at least have the courtesy to mark your thread as solved.
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