Copying text to the clipboard using Java

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I want to copy text from a JTable's cell to the clipboard, making it available to be pasted into other programs such as Microsoft Word. I have the text from the JTable, but I am unsure how to copy it to the clipboard.

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6 Answers

This is the accepted answer written in a decorative way:

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
        .getSystemClipboard()
        .setContents(
                new StringSelection(txtMySQLScript.getText()),
                null
        );
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For JavaFx based applications.

        //returns System Clipboard
        final Clipboard clipboard = Clipboard.getSystemClipboard();
        // ClipboardContent provides flexibility to store data in different formats
        final ClipboardContent content = new ClipboardContent();
        content.putString("Some text");
        content.putHtml("<b>Some</b> text");
        //this will be replaced by previous putString
        content.putString("Some different text");
        //set the content to clipboard
        clipboard.setContent(content);
       // validate before retrieving it
        if(clipboard.hasContent(DataFormat.HTML)){
            System.out.println(clipboard.getHtml());
        }
        if(clipboard.hasString()){
            System.out.println(clipboard.getString());
        }

ClipboardContent can save multiple data in several data formats like(html,url,plain text,image).

For more information see official documentation

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For reference:

static void copyToClipboard(String text) {
    java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard()
        .setContents(new java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection(text), null);
}
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