how can I use the clipboard function to directely save this string array on workspace WITHOUT OPENING THE IMPORT WIZARD

[Geoff Hayes]

Amine - are you copying this data from another application (Excel, Numbers, etc.) and then just hoping to paste it (i.e. assign it) to a variable in the base workspace? What is wrong with using the import tool?

[AMINE EL MOUATAMID]

because I want to build ana aplication.

firstly the user put this data on clipboard from the software ( omnitrend ), then when he click a button on the app , I get it and assign it to a string array to work on it ( without the appearing of the import tool)

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/95037-how-can-i-import-text-from-the-clipboard-to-workspace-in-matlab-7-14-r2012a#answer_104389 mentions the possibility of code generation for uiimport, and implies that it could work with data on the clipboard (otherwise why bother mentioning it?) It would be worth an experiment.

[AMINE EL MOUATAMID]

does the code montion the first part of importing data from the clipboard to import tool or just the part of importing data from import tool to workspace?

[per isakson]

Doc says:

data = clipboard('pastespecial') imports the clipboard contents into an array using uiimport

[AMINE EL MOUATAMID]

I solve the problem

actually uiimport creat a temprary text file and paste on it the data from clipboard in one line.

then the code that generated by import tool changes the data from that line( of text file) to a specific dataArray.

I add this function to the code ( txt=clipboard('paste');) txt is a 1*1 ( like the line of temrary text file)

delimiter = '\t';
%% Format for each line of text:
%   column1: text (%s)
%	column2: text (%s)
%   column3: text (%s)
%	column4: text (%s)
%   column5: text (%s)
%	column6: text (%s)
% For more information, see the TEXTSCAN documentation.
formatSpec = '%s%s%s%s%s%s%[^\n\r]';
%% Read columns of data according to the format.
txt = clipboard('paste');
dataArray = textscan(txt, formatSpec, 'Delimiter', delimiter, 'TextType', 'string',  'ReturnOnError', false);
%% Create output variable
DATA = [dataArray{1:end-1}];
%% Clear temporary variables
clearvars  delimiter formatSpec  dataArray txt ;

thank you all for your help