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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:10:57+00:00

I already know how to get plain text from the clipboard in Java, but

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I already know how to get plain text from the clipboard in Java, but sometimes the text is encoded in some weird DataFlavor, like when copying from Microsoft Word or from a website or even source code from Eclipse.

How to extract pure plain text from these DataFlavors?

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  1. Editorial Team
    import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.io.IOException;

String data = (String) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
                .getSystemClipboard().getData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);

    with the getData() Method and the stringFlavor you should get plain text from the clipboard.

    If there are weird text in the clipboard, I think, this should be a problem of the program which puts the data in the clipboard.

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