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Tutorial: Learn To Copy Matrix As A Excel Clipboard In Modern C++

Clipboard also called the paste buffer, is a buffer that operating systems provide to copy things (texts, bitmaps, tables, etc.) for the short term and transfer within and between application programs. The clipboard is usually temporary and unnamed, and its contents reside in the computer’s memory.

In C++ Builder there are good components to use Excel forms, excel supported Grid components, etc. In this post, we would like to post a small snippet to copy a matrix member as in excel clipboard form. So you can paste all members to excel. This method is good to copy data from a matrix that is formed with numeric or alphanumeric parameters. You can also add this method to popup menus of components or things which has parameters in a table form, like Grids.

Excel form of a table (only texts) is formed with a text string and each column is separated with a tab character ( ‘\t‘ ) and each string line is listed as in that row.

This C++ Builder Console VCL Application example below copies a 2d matrix to a clipboard in excel form.

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Dr. Yilmaz Yoru has 35+ years of coding with more than 30+ programming languages, mostly C++ on Windows, Android, Mac-OS, iOS, Linux, and some other operating systems. He was born in 1974, Eskisehir-Turkey, started coding in college and graduated from the department of Mechanical Engineering of Eskisehir Osmangazi University in 1997. He worked as a research assistant at the same university for more than 10 years. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from the same department at the same university. Since 2012, he is the founder and CEO of Esenja LLC Company. He has married and he is a father of a son. Some of his interests are Programming, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, 2D & 3D Designs, and high-end innovations.
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