Select the first item that you want to copy, and press CTRL+C. Continue copying items from the same or other files until you have collected all of the items that you want. The Office Clipboard can hold up to 24 items.
If all you want is plain text, you can just use the string
property. It's both readable and writable:
// write to clipboard
UIPasteboard.general.string = "Hello world"
// read from clipboard
let content = UIPasteboard.general.string
(When reading from the clipboard, the UIPasteboard documentation also suggests you might want to first check hasStrings
, "to avoid causing the system to needlessly attempt to fetch data before it is needed or when the data might not be present", such as when using Handoff.)
Since copying and pasting is usually done in pairs, this is supplemental answer to @jtbandes good, concise answer. I originally came here looking how to paste.
iOS makes this easy because the general pasteboard can be used like a variable. Just get and set UIPasteboard.general.string
.
Here is an example showing both being used with a UITextField
:
Copy
UIPasteboard.general.string = myTextField.text
Paste
if let myString = UIPasteboard.general.string {
myTextField.insertText(myString)
}
Note that the pasteboard string is an Optional, so it has to be unwrapped first.
Copying text from the app to the clipboard:
let pasteboard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteboard.string = employee.phoneNumber
SWIFT 4
UIPasteboard.general.string = "TEXT"
in Swift 5 i can copy text to clipboard using
UIPasteboard.general.string = "Hello world"
then you can paste the text anywhere of your device
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