AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Name

the clipboard

Synopsis

get clipboard

get clipboard

Gets the clipboard text, or you can specify some other class. A common trick is to specify as record; in the resulting record, the names of the items are their classes, and the values are their values.

-- user has copied a file's icon in the Finder
set r to the clipboard as record
-- {string:"Hawaii Itinerary.pdf", «class ut16»:"Hawaii Itinerary.pdf",
«class hfs »:«data hfs 0000...0000», «class utf8»:"Hawaii
Itinerary.pdf", Unicode text:"Hawaii Itinerary.pdf", picture:«data PICT0A38...000FF»,
 «class icns»:«data icns6963...0000», «class furl»:file
"feathers:Users:mattneub:Desktop:Hawaii Itinerary.pdf"}
type identifier of (info for «class furl» of r) -- "com.adobe.pdf"
the clipboard as «class furl» -- works too