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//== GetClipboardText ======================================================

/* The function   GetClipboardText   returns the text in the active
   clipboard as string for a variable of type string. It does this
   by opening a new file, convert it to ASCII in case of the setting
   >Always create new files as UNICODE< is checked in the configuration,
   pastes the text, re-selects it and returns the selection as string.
   This routine can be also used to get a selection in a Unicode file
   into a string variable if you first copy the selection to one of
   the 10 clipboards and the selected Unicode string can be converted
   to ANSI without a change in the characters like for UTF-8 XML files
   which do not really contain Unicode characters.

The function requires UltraEdit >= v13.20 or UEStudio >= v6.40.

The function has following optional input parameters:

  1) nDocIndex - is the document index number of the ASCII/ANSI file
     which should be used for the clipboard to string conversion. The
     default value is -1 which means that the function should create a
     new ASCII file by itself. Use -1 on first call of this function. But
     if you need this function more than once, use the second parameter to
     avoid closing the temp file and call this function with the correct
     document index number of the temp file to avoid permanent opening
     and closing temp files during script execution which would make the
     script very slow.

  2) bAutoClose - boolean variable to specify if the temp file should be
     automatically closed after the function has loaded the clipboard text
     into a string variable. The default is TRUE which means that the temp
     file is automatically closed.
     
This function is copyrighted by Mofi for free usage by UE/UES users.
The author cannot be responsible for any damage caused by this function.
You use it at your own risk. */

function GetClipboardText (nDocIndex, bAutoClose)
{
   // First check the optional input parameters.
   if (typeof(nDocIndex) != "number") nDocIndex = -1;
   if (nDocIndex >= 0)    // Check for invalid document index.
   {
      if (nDocIndex >= UltraEdit.document.length) nDocIndex = -1;
   }
   if (typeof(bAutoClose) != "boolean") bAutoClose = true;

   /* Remember document index of active file in case it must be made
      active again after the function has loaded the string from the
      temp file. This small routine was copied from
      http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4571 */
   var nActiveFileIndex = -1
   for (var i = 0; i < UltraEdit.document.length; i++)
   {
      if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.path == UltraEdit.document[i].path)
      {
         nActiveFileIndex = i;
         break;
      }
   }

   var nActLineNo = -1;
   var nTempFileIndex = nDocIndex;

   if (nDocIndex < 0)     // Must a new temp file be created?
   {
      UltraEdit.newFile();
      nTempFileIndex = UltraEdit.document.length - 1;
      UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].unicodeToASCII();
   }
   else
   {
   /* Just in case the user wants to use the active file as temp
      file remember the current position in the temp file to
      restore the position later. */
      nActLineNo = UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].currentLineNum;
      var nActColNo = UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].currentColumnNum;
      if (typeof(UltraEdit.activeDocumentIdx) == "undefined") nActColNo++;
   }

   /* Go to top of the temp file, paste the active clipboard content
      and re-select it. */
   UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].top();
   UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].paste();
   UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].selectToTop();

   // Get the selection into a string variable if there is one.
   var sClipboardText = "";
   if (UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].isSel())
   {
      sClipboardText = UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].selection;
      UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].deleteText();
   }

   // Restore previous file position in the temp file if necessary.
   if (nActLineNo >= 0) UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].gotoLine(nActLineNo,nActColNo);

   // Close the temp file if it should be done.
   if (bAutoClose) UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.document[nTempFileIndex].path,2);

   // Set focus back to previous active file if this is necessary.
   if (nActiveFileIndex >= 0 && nActiveFileIndex < UltraEdit.document.length)
   {
      if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.path != UltraEdit.document[nActiveFileIndex].path)
      {
         UltraEdit.document[nActiveFileIndex].setActive();
      }
   }
   return sClipboardText;
}

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UltraEdit.runTool("MyToolWhichOutputsToTheOutputWindow");
// Find unused clipboard, then...
UltraEdit.outputWindow.copy();
var lines = GetClipboardText().split('\r\n');

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UltraEdit.runTool("MyToolWhichOutputsToTheOutputWindow");
for( line in UltraEdit.outputWindow ) { ...