get string from nspasteboard

maybe it's been a long night but I am not able to understand how to check the clipboard for strings

I have been re开发者_开发技巧ading the NSPasteboard documentation..

could some one help me out?

you need to use the following method with stringForType with key NSPasteboardTypeString to read the string value from clipboard.

- (NSString *)stringForType:(NSString *)dataType .

NSPasteboard*  myPasteboard  = [NSPasteboard generalPasteboard];
NSString* myString = [myPasteboard  stringForType:NSPasteboardTypeString];

To do this for iOS with UIPasteBoard use the following code:

UIPasteboard *thePasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
NSString *pasteboardString = thePasteboard.string;
NSLog(@"%@", pasteboardString);

You can find the Swift 4 version on below for both Mac and iOS.

Mac

    let pasteboard = NSPasteboard.general
    let copiedString = pasteboard.string(forType: .string)

iOS

    let pasteboard = UIPasteboard.general
    let copiedString = pasteboard.string // might be nil value, is an optional variable